Asian stocks poked into positive territory on Tuesday, shrugging off early losses as Chinese shares rose a day after marking their biggest loss in a month and crude prices took back some lost ground.
Financial spreadbetters at IG expected Britain's FTSE 100 to open up by 2 points, while Germany's DAX and France's CAC were both seen rising by 0.6 percent.
"Asian markets have looked past the wobble in oil prices and Chinese data yesterday to push tentatively into the green," Angus Nicholson, market analyst at IG in Melbourne, said in a note to clients.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.1 percent. But it remained on track to mark a loss of around 12 percent for 2015, a year that saw it log a more than seven-year high in April.
China's blue-chip CSI300 index added 0.7 percent, while the Shanghai Composite Index was up 0.5 percent, as the central bank vowed to maintain reasonable credit growth and keep the yuan stable.
Both indexes had skidded more than 2 percent in the previous session as weak industrial profit data and a looming revamp of how companies will be listed, weighed on the market.
Japan's Nikkei erased earlier losses and ended up 0.6 percent, while South Korea's KOSPI was up 0.1 percent.
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