<div id="readability-page-1"><div>(MT Newswires) -- Asian stock markets fell back on Friday, as traders adopted a risk-off stance regarding equity valuations, especially in the high-flying tech sector. Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo finished in the red, while tech-heavy exchanges in Seoul and Taiwan sank. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 opened lower in response to Wall Street cues and failed to recover, finishing off 0.9% as traders booked profits in a market that had closed at a record high on Thursday. The benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 399.94 to 45,354.99, although gaining issues outnumbered losers 135 to 88, as losses were concentrated in the tech sector. Leading the downside, semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker Lasertec declined 8.4%, while Sumco, a maker of silicon wafers for microchips, lost 7.5% on the day. Disco, which manufactures precision tools for chipmaking, fell 7.1%. In economic news, Japan's consumer price index-core (CPI-core), which strips out food bills, rose 2.5% on the year in August, unchanged from the July gain, and still modestly above the Bank of Japan's 2% annual national inflation target. In other news, Japan's real wages fell 0.2% in July from a year earlier, reported the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index opened lower and declined in the afternoon, as investors joined the global exit from tech issues. The broad gauge Hang Seng fell 356.48 to 26,128.20 as losing issues outnumbered gainers 55 to 30. The Hang Seng TECH Index lost 2.9% on the day, while the Mainland Properties Index fell 0.3%. Smartphone and automaker Xiaomi declined 8.1%, while Semiconductor Manufacturing International lost 5%. On the mainland, the Shanghai Composite fell 0.7% to 3,828.11.On the other regional exchanges, the South Korean KOSPI fell 2.4%; the Taiwan TWSE declined 1.7%; the Australian ASX 200 rose 0.2%; the Singapore Straits Times Index fell 0.1%, and the Thai Set declined 0.7%. In late trading in Mumbai, the Sensex was down 1%.</div></div>

LSRCY

3436

2 倍做空日元 ETF - ProShares

亞洲股市在週五出現下跌，主要受到科技行業風險規避情緒的影響。香港、上海和東京的主要指數均下滑，日經 225 指數在創下歷史新高後下跌了 0.9%。激光科技（Lasertec）和 SUMCO 等關鍵科技股遭遇重大損失。日本的核心消費者物價指數（CPI）保持在 2.5% 不變，而實際工資下降了 0.2%。恒生指數及其他地區市場也報告了虧損，反映出投資者普遍退出科技股的趨勢

科技股暴跌對亞洲股市造成衝擊