Asia markets set for a mixed open after key Wall Street benchmarks clock worst day in 2 months

Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened mixed Friday, aft Wall Street benchmarks the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 suffered their worst time successful astir 2 months connected downbeat Microsoft net forecast and Meta results.

Traders await a slate of economical information from the region, including third-quarter shaper prices scale speechmaking from Australia and Caixin China manufacturing purchasing managers' scale for October.

Japan's Nikkei 225 appeared acceptable for a softer open, with the futures declaration successful Chicago astatine 38,470 and their counterpart successful Osaka astatine 38,370 against the index's past adjacent of 39,081.25.

Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng index stood astatine 20,432, pointing to a rebound from its past adjacent astatine 20,317.33.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 kicked disconnected trading 1% lower.

Overnight successful the U.S., each 3 large indexes dropped.

The S&P 500 tumbled 1.86% to decorativeness astatine 5,705.45 and the Nasdaq Composite mislaid 2.76% to adjacent astatine 18,095.15 — some recorded their biggest one-day losses since Sept. 3. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.9% to extremity astatine 41,763.46.

That marked the last trading time of a choppy period connected Wall Street, with the 30-stock Dow signaling monthly losses of 1.3%, S&P 500 declining 1% and the Nasdaq slipping 0.5%.

—CNBC's Hakyung Kim and Brian Evans contributed to this report.