It's downhill in Hong Kong and uphill in Japan after a couple of hours of trading for leading stock indexes.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index took a sharp dip, down 3.6 percent. The dip follows a 13-day upswing, largely driven by Chinese stimulus announcements.
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index was up 2.2 percent and the broader Topix index up 1.4 percent.
The stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen as well as South Korea are closed for the weekend.
