HONG KONG: Asian markets mostly fell Friday (June 21) following a broadly negative lead from Wall Street, where tech giants led a sell-off on profit-taking, while traders are on intervention watch as the yen retreats back towards a three-decade low.
A batch of worse-than-forecast US data provided further signs that the world's number one economy was softening but that was not enough to help push the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to more record highs.
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