“There are much tailwinds for risk sentiments in the region to tap on, with the positive handover in Wall Street, weaker US dollar and lower Treasury yields,” Yeap Jun Rong, a market strategist at IG, wrote in a note. “However, Japan’s Nikkei ...

Markets on Wall Street leaned toward small losses early Friday as investors took in more corporate earnings while waiting for the January report on retail sales.

The S&P 500 was 0.2% lower in afternoon trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 169 points, or 0.4%, as of 12:47 p.m. Eastern time