Nikkei index rises

(CNN) - Japan's Nikkei Exchange jumped more than 5 percent in early trading Tuesday after a seesaw day on Wall Street that saw little change on the U.S. markets.

Seoul's KOSPI was up less than a percentage point in early trading after closing up 1.4 percent the day before, but many other markets were down slightly.

Australia's All Ordinaries dropped less than a percentage point in early trading. Taipei's Taiwan Weighted was down a percentage point, and the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was also down slightly, less than a  percentage point. In Singapore, the Straits Times index was down  2 percent.

Tokyo markets were closed Monday, but other Asian and Pacific stocks saw modest gains.