Stock market today: Asian markets are mixed after another winning close on Wall Street
U.S. futures also were mixed and oil prices climbed. China cut its one-year and five-year Loan Prime Rates, which are reference rates for lending. China's Finance Ministry has pledged to ramp up such outlays in coming months, “However, we are still skeptical that fiscal easing will be large enough to deliver anything more than a modest and short-lived pick-up in activity.”