"The story is still developing at the US end and pretty much everyone is tracking that right now. Traders would be moving to safe-haven assets and I think we are going to continue to see selling pressure in Asian equities." In Asia, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.8% at one point. Philippine stocks ended at its lowest level in two weeks, as real estate and financial stocks fell, after data showed that economy grew at its slowest pace in more than a year in the first quarter. Vietnam stocks pulled back from a more than one-month high to end flat, while Singapore shares also closed flat.

Source: Bangkok Post May 18, 2017 12:00 UTC