Asia-Pacific shares set to fall, tracking Wall Street declines as tech selloff deepens

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Asia-Pacific markets were acceptable to unfastened little connected Friday, tracking losses connected Wall Street arsenic exertion stocks continued to travel nether pressure.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 scale was acceptable for a little open, with its futures declaration successful Chicago trading astatine 50,210 and its counterpart successful Osaka astatine 50,090 against the index's past adjacent of 51,281.83.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 mislaid 1.58%.

Futures for Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index pointed to a little open, trading astatine 26,701, against the index's erstwhile adjacent of 27,073.03.

China volition merchandise information connected retail sales, concern output, and fixed-asset concern for October today. Fixed-asset investment, which includes existent estate, fell unexpectedly by 0.5% successful September.

Overnight successful the U.S., each 3 large averages closed little arsenic investors continued to merchantability shares of exertion companies, particularly those successful the artificial quality trade, amid worries astir their valuations.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 797.60 points, oregon 1.65%, to settee astatine 47,457.22, good disconnected the grounds highs set successful the erstwhile session. The S&P 500 shed 1.66% to decorativeness astatine 6,737.49.

The broad-based scale saw notable declines successful the accusation exertion and connection services sectors, led by Disney, which fell astir 8% connected mixed results for its fiscal 4th quarter. The Nasdaq Composite pulled backmost 2.29% to adjacent astatine 22,870.36. All 3 large averages, arsenic good arsenic the small-cap Russell 2000 index, suffered their worst time since Oct. 10.

— CNBC's Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.

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