Asian stock markets ended mixed, with the dollar s

Asian stock markets ended mixed, with the dollar sinking against the yen, although markets in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, as well as most European exchanges, are closed for Easter Monday. Trading was light as tensions eased a bit on the Korean peninsula following North Korea's ballistic missile test that "blew up almost immediately" after it was fired, a day after Kim Jong Il's regime paraded a series of new missiles in a defiant show of force. Chinese shares finished lower even as the country’s GDP strengthened, as China's top securities regulator urged stock exchanges to crack down on stock manipulation; the Shanghai Composite closed down 0.7%. Japan's Nikkei edged higher by 0.1% amid speculation that recent selling was overdone.