Stock Market Today: Asian Shares Slide After Tech, Rising Oil Prices Drag Wall Street Lower

Stock Market Today: Asian Shares Slide After Tech, Rising Oil Prices Drag Wall Street Lower
An employee of a bank walks by the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), (L), and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 13, 2023. Lee Jin-man/AP Photo
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Stocks fell Wednesday in Asia after a slide for technology stocks dragged Wall Street lower ahead of a key report on U.S. inflation.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 0.3 percent to 17,970.01 and the Shanghai Composite index sank 0.9 percent to 3,109.88.