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• European markets opened mixed on Wednesday, amid light trade across markets worldwide due to the holiday period.

The pan-European STOXX 600 was hovering around the flatline with major bourses pointing in different directions.

• Asian shares rose on Wednesday with oil and copper prices rocketing to multi-year highs in an uplifting sign for global growth and inflation, while major currencies were becalmed in a holiday-shortened week.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan climbed 0.3 percent to near a recent one-month top.

• Japan’s Nikkei share average inched up on Wednesday, with a rally in crude prices supporting oil-related shares.

The Nikkei ended 0.08 percent higher at 22,911.21.

• Shanghai stocks suffered their biggest loss in two weeks on Wednesday amid signs of slowing economic growth and year-end liquidity tightness. Earnings at China’s industrial firms grew at their slowest pace in seven months in November, official data showed.

At the close, the Shanghai Composite index was down 30.73 points or 0.93 percent at 3,275.40.

Reference: Reuters, CNBC