Asian stock exchanges turned downward on Friday, after previously during the week rising since the USA and Japan agreed on a customs agreement. At lunchtime, both the Nikkei 225 index and the broader Topix index, both on the Tokyo stock exchange, had fallen by 0.6 percent.
It's also going downward for Hong Kong's Hang Seng index, which after some hours of trading had lost 0.6 percent.
Shenzhen's composite index and the one in Shanghai both fell 0.2.
