Australian S&P/ASX 200 futures were down 0.6%, while Japan's Nikkei 225 futures were off 0.02%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index futures were down 0.23%
WASHINGTON: Asian stocks were set to dip on Thursday after a choppy Wall Street session as spiking Covid-19 coronavirus cases and prospects of new lockdowns erased earlier confidence about a global economic recovery.
Optimism about a quick economic comeback has been tempered by more global cases of the coronavirus, with an outbreak in Beijing and a rising infections in U.S. states that are reopening their economies.
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