Tokyo — Asian stocks slid on Friday as reports of more chaos in the Trump administration tested investors’ nerves, already frayed by the fear that US tariffs could hurt the global economy and trigger a trade war. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.2% in early trade. Japan’s Nikkei was down 0.3%. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 edged 0.08% lower on Thursday, marking its first four-day losing streak of 2018. It hit a session low soon after the New York Times reported that US special counsel Robert Mueller had issued a subpoena for documents related to US President Donald Trump’s businesses. The Washington Post, meanwhile, reported that President Donald Trump had decided to remove HR McMaster as his national security adviser. The news came just days after following the recent departure of two key officials, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson and top economic adviser Gary Cohn, from the Trump administration. Together with the report earlier this week t...
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