NEW YORK: Asian equities were primed to track declines on Wall Street as investors braced themselves for the next trade war salvo and weighed up conflicting signals from US corporate earnings.
Equity index futures for Japan and Hong Kong were down, while Australian shares opened little changed. US futures were flat after the S&P 500 closed slightly down Thursday (March 20), a sign of fragile sentiment just a week after the benchmark slipped into a correction. A benchmark of US-listed Chinese shares fell 3.8 per cent.
