Share indexes across the region retreated as confidence in Big Tech’s fortunes waned off the back of some tame earnings posts

Big Tech anxieties, China’s wayward economy, Donald’s Trump’s possible return and currency shifts all weighed on sentiment

Demand concerns for the world’s No2 economy cast a shadow across the region’s trading floors, trumping a U-turn in technology shares

Investors across the region took Biden’s election withdrawal in their stride but the impact of last week’s Microsoft-related outage was still being felt

The absence of concrete stimulus promises out of China’s key leadership summit added to an air of pessimism across the region’s bourses

Technology stocks led a slump in Japan and Taiwan while China’s markets were lifted by hopes of stimulus from Beijing

Worries about another Sino-US trade war if Trump returns to power had investors on edge across the region

The attempt on Donald Trump’s life and its impact on his chances of re-election pulled investors both ways on Tuesday

The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has shortened the odds on a Republican US election victory, increasing the risk of a new China-US trade war

Investors snapped up Japanese stocks after sharp losses in the previous session but uncertainties about the BoJ’s policy path weighed on investor sentiment

Among the biggest drags on Nikkei was Toyota Motor, which slid 2.6% amid continued fallout from a safety test certification scandal

Sentiment was hurt as the United States said it was considering taking additional steps against Chinese companies that have been supplying Russia's defence industrial sector