Stocks were mostly lower in Asia on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Hong Kong's Hang Seng slipped 1.4% to 23,614.25 and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo lost 0.7% to 28,432.64. In Seoul, the Kospi fell 0.5% to 2,987.95. The Shanghai Composite index shed 0.6% to 3,657.91, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 edged less than 0.1% lower, to 7,378.40. In other trading, U.S. benchmark crude rose 7 cents to $71.36 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It lost 38 cents to $71.29 on Monday. Brent crude, the basis for international pricing of crude, picked up 14 cents to $74.53 per barrel. In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 113.60 Japanese yen from 113.57 late Monday. The euro slipped to $1.1282 from $1.1285.
