ASX dip after offshore slide At 10.30am AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 13.7 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 5,048.7 points. ""We were expecting a pretty negative day in Europe and the US, and clearly there's calm ahead prevailing there,"" he said. ""People are happy to buy the dips."" But, by 10.40am AEST, all the banks were in the red, with ANZ shedding 27 cents to $27.86.The resources stocks were mixed, with BHP Billiton losing 21 cents to $34.67 and Rio Tinto shedding nine cents to $55.01. US stocks finished slightly lower, little-affected by a sharp selloff in Asian and European markets led by the 7.3 per cent plunge of Japan's Nikkei 225 index. Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.07% to 15,296.04 Nasdaq Composite Index lost 0.11% to 3,459.42 European stock markets slumped, with most indices dropping more than 2.0 per cent with Tokyo shares plunging owing to weak Chinese data and signs the US Federal Reserve may soon taper massive stimulus measures. London's FTSE 100 lost 2.10% to 6,696.79 In Frankfurt the DAX 30 lost 2.10% to 8,351.98 In Paris the CAC 40 lost 2.07% to 3,967.15 Asian markets fell with Tokyo plunging more than seven per cent as investors took profits after weak Chinese data and signs the US Federal Reserve could start tapering off its massive stimulus measures. Japan's Nikkei lost 7.32% to 14,483.98 China's Shanghai composite lost 1.16% to 2,275.67 Hong Kong lost 2.54% to 22,669.68 WTI had hit an intraday low of $US92.21 At the PM kerb close on Thursday, LME three-month copper was down 2.3 per cent at $US7,299 a metric ton, erasing the previous session's gains