Asian stocks edged lower, with the artificial intelligence theme in early focus during a week set to be shaped by earnings from chip bellwether Nvidia Corp. and the Federal Reserve’s annual gathering.
MSCI’s Asia Pacific equities gauge dipped 0.1%, with the Kospi Index in South Korea — a bellwether for AI investments — falling 1.2%. However, US equity-index futures erased earlier losses to edged up, with contracts for the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 climbing 0.1%.
