Asia-Pacific markets were set to open lower on Friday, tracking losses on Wall Street as technology stocks continued to come under pressure.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225

index was set for a lower open, with its futures contract in Chicago trading at 50,210 and its counterpart in Osaka at 50,090 against the index’s last close of 51,281.83.

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200

lost 1.58%.