Hong Kong — Asian tech stocks tumbled on Tuesday and a regional equity gauge suffered its biggest slide in nearly two months after a sell-off on Wall Street, as traders braced for US inflation data amid worries growing price pressures might bring forward rate rises.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.7% by midsession, its largest drop since late March, and Japan’s Nikkei fell 2.8%...
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