The stock market sell-off spreads to Asia and Europe live from the BBC World Service.

This is the Marketplace Morning Report.

Will Bain with you today.

Thanks for being with us.

Yeah, the route on Wall Street has spread today with tech shares, particularly those exposed to AI hit especially hard.

The BBC's Asia business reporter, Jo de Silver, has been across the numbers.

Morning, Jo.

Good morning. What's going on with Asian stocks right

now technology stocks in particular well Asian stocks have taken the cue from

Wall Street there's declines across the board especially in the tech sector. Tokyo Electron, a chipmaker in Tokyo is down.

Also SK Hynix in South Korea, so chipmakers especially, they've been hit the hardest and that's

really taking the cue from Wall Street where for a few weeks now the tech sector has

been falling and those falls really accelerated on Wall Street in the last trading section.

And that's all really to do with language, isn't it, and politics and talk about potential

restrictions of the movements of these chips around the world in such a globalized marketplace.

What kind of mood music have you picked up from those big Asian tech companies about that

and about what the future might look like?

Part of it is that expectation that the US will eventually impose more restrictions

on chips trade with China. China being of course a major market for technology. But there's also the aspects and analysts we've been talking to here really

emphasize that over the last year, the last two years we've seen a lot of money being

invested by tech companies in Asia in the US all around a lot of

investment being made into AI and now investors are wondering where are the returns we

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