It was mostly minus among the larger indexes at lunch local time. The Japanese Nikkei 225 fell by 0.1 percent, while the South Korean Kospi was down by about 0.7 percent.
At the same time in China, the Shanghai composite index had decreased by 0.2 percent, while Shenzhen was trading at an unchanged level. The Hong Kong-based Hang Seng was one of the day's exceptions and was up by just under 0.4 percent in the middle of the trading day.
On Tuesday, it was announced that the US government again plans to allow the technology giant Nvidia to sell certain types of AI chips to China. In the wake of the news, several stocks in the industry have risen on the Asian stock exchanges, including the Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank, which is the majority owner of the semiconductor company Arm.
