Asian stocks slip as virus fears deepen ahead of US jobs data(Update)

Yet MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.3% while Japan's Nikkei was down 1%. European futures rose 0.2% and U.S. futures bounced 1.2% after Wednesday's rout.

SINGAPORE: Asian share markets were pinned down on Thursday, haunted by the rising U.S. coronavirus death toll, and with investors braced for more signs of economic pain in the world's largest economy ahead of another likely record week of jobless claims.

With hopes growing that the worst of the outbreak may have passed for China and South Korea, the mood was less bleak than on Wall Street, which plunged overnight.