China, Hong Kong and Taiwan markets are closed for holidays on Tuesday. Japan's Nikkei .N225 ended flat, held back by a stronger yen.
South Korea's KOSPI .KS11 fell 0.4 percent as investors took profits following the market's record-breaking rally this month.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised Monday's test of a new ballistic missile controlled by a precision guidance system and ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons, the North's official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
South Korea said it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber on Monday. North Korea's state media earlier accused the U.S. of staging a drill to practice dropping nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula.
European blue-chip stocks .STOXXE fell 0.2 percent on Monday, with Italy's banking index sliding 3.4 percent, its biggest loss in nearly four months, after two lenders sought help to cover a capital shortfall.
Sterling GBP= retreated 0.2 percent to $1.2809 after British Prime Minister Theresa May's lead over the opposition Labour Party dropped to 6 percentage points in the latest poll to show a tightening race since the Manchester bombing and a U-turn over social care plans.
The dollar declined 0.4 percent to 110.88 yen JPY=. The dollar index .DXY, which tracks the greenback against a basket of trade-weighted peers, however, advanced 0.3 percent to 97.751.
Markets are awaiting economic indicators including French first quarter gross domestic product, German inflation data for May, and U.S. inflation for April later in the session.
In commodities, oil prices retreated, as concerns lingered about whether the extension of output cuts by OPEC and other producing countries will be enough to support prices.
U.S. crude futures CLc1 slipped about 0.1 percent to $49.78 a barrel. Global benchmark Brent LCOc1 fell 0.4 percent to $52.09. Gold XAU= rose 0.1 percent to $1,268 an ounce.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised Monday's test of a new ballistic missile controlled by a precision guidance system and ordered the development of more powerful strategic weapons, the North's official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
South Korea said it had conducted a joint drill with a U.S. supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber on Monday. North Korea's state media earlier accused the U.S. of staging a drill to practice dropping nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula.
European blue-chip stocks .STOXXE fell 0.2 percent on Monday, with Italy's banking index sliding 3.4 percent, its biggest loss in nearly four months, after two lenders sought help to cover a capital shortfall.
Sterling GBP= retreated 0.2 percent to $1.2809 after British Prime Minister Theresa May's lead over the opposition Labour Party dropped to 6 percentage points in the latest poll to show a tightening race since the Manchester bombing and a U-turn over social care plans.
The dollar declined 0.4 percent to 110.88 yen JPY=. The dollar index .DXY, which tracks the greenback against a basket of trade-weighted peers, however, advanced 0.3 percent to 97.751.
Markets are awaiting economic indicators including French first quarter gross domestic product, German inflation data for May, and U.S. inflation for April later in the session.
In commodities, oil prices retreated, as concerns lingered about whether the extension of output cuts by OPEC and other producing countries will be enough to support prices.
U.S. crude futures CLc1 slipped about 0.1 percent to $49.78 a barrel. Global benchmark Brent LCOc1 fell 0.4 percent to $52.09. Gold XAU= rose 0.1 percent to $1,268 an ounce.
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