Asian shares mostly lower after tech-led Wall Steet retreat

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BANGKOK – Stocks were mostly little successful Asia connected Tuesday aft Wall Street retreated from caller grounds levels connected weakness successful exertion shares.

Hong Kong’s benchmark slipped connected persisting worries implicit spot developers. Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai besides declined.

Shares successful Shanghai-based Shimao Group Holdings sank 12.6% successful Hong Kong connected Tuesday connected concerns astir its fiscal situation. Shimao is among galore spot companies facing tighter controls connected indebtedness levels that person caught immoderate heavy leveraged companies abbreviated connected currency to conscionable indebtedness obligations.

China Evergrande Group's shares gave up 6.4%. Evergrande is 1 of China's largest developers, with implicit $300 cardinal successful debt.

“Recent scrutiny has gripped clasp of Shimao Group Holdings, China’s 13th largest developer by contracted sales, connected its liquidity presumption and debt-servicing ability. That whitethorn proceed to enactment the spot assemblage connected ticker today," said Yeap Jun Rong of IG.

Another interest is China's archetypal reported lawsuit of the omicron variant of coronavirus, Yeap added.

Chinese leaders person promised taxation cuts and enactment for entrepreneurs to enactment up slumping economical maturation arsenic the state grapples with bankruptcies and defaults among existent property developers caused by the run to rein successful surging debt.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng slipped 1.3% to 23,642.70 and the Nikkei 225 successful Tokyo mislaid 0.9% to 28,391.91. In Seoul, the Kospi fell 0.7% to 2,982.00.

The Shanghai Composite scale shed 0.3% to 3,669.84, portion the S&P/ASX 200 edged little than 0.1% lower, to 7,376.70.

On Monday, the S&P 500 fell 0.9% to 4,669.97, giving backmost immoderate of its gains aft the benchmark scale climbed to an all-time precocious Friday ending Wall Street's champion week since February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average besides fell 0.9%, to 35,650.95. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite slid 1.4% to 15,413.28.

The Russell 2000 besides gave up 1.4%, to 2,180.50 arsenic small-company stocks fared worse than the broader marketplace successful a awesome that investors are acrophobic astir economical growth.

Harley-Davidson roseate 4.7% aft saying it volition instrumentality its electrical motorcycle part nationalist done a blank-check company, valuing the endeavor that has been portion of the motorcycle shaper for 10 years astatine $1.77 billion.

The market’s pullback, with the S&P 500 caller disconnected its 67th all-time precocious this year, comes arsenic investors look up to the Federal Reserve’s latest economical and involvement complaint argumentation update connected Wednesday.

Wall Street volition get an ostentation update connected Tuesday erstwhile the Labor Department releases its Producer Price Index for November, which shows however ostentation is impacting costs for businesses. That study volition beryllium particularly important with the Fed gathering connected Tuesday and Wednesday.

Markets expect the cardinal slope volition denote plans to accelerate its timetable for reducing enslaved purchases aimed astatine keeping semipermanent involvement rates low.

Stocks person been mostly pushing higher, contempt a volatile agelong successful precocious November arsenic worries astir the omicron variant of the coronavirus roiled markets. Some of those concerns eased past week amid encouraging signs that the variant whitethorn beryllium little unsafe than delta.

Several large pharmaceutical companies, including COVID-19 vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer were among the biggest gainers successful the S&P 500 Monday. Moderna jumped 5.8% for the biggest summation successful the index. Pfizer roseate 4.6% pursuing quality it is buying Arena Pharmaceuticals.

The output connected the 10-year Treasury was dependable astatine 1.42% aft falling to 1.41% Monday from 1.49% precocious Friday. That weighed connected banks, which trust connected higher enslaved yields to complaint much lucrative involvement connected loans. Capital One fell 2.9%.

In different trading, U.S. benchmark crude mislaid 44 cents to $70.85 per tube successful physics trading connected the New York Mercantile Exchange. It mislaid 38 cents to $71.29 connected Monday.

Brent crude, the ground for planetary pricing of crude, mislaid 38 cents to $74.01 per barrel.

The U.S. dollar roseate to 113.59 Japanese yen from 113.57 precocious Monday. The euro slipped to $1.1277 from $1.1285.

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AP Business Writers Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga contributed.

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