Asian markets open: Nikkei, MSCI fall as tech selloff; Sensex, Nifty eye higher open

Asian markets open: Nikkei, MSCI fall as tech selloff; Sensex, Nifty eye higher open [https://invezz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-58-1.png] The long summer rally has hit a brutal wall of worry. A sharp, tech-led selloff on Wall Street is sending a wave of contagion across Asian markets, as a potent and complex cocktail of risks suddenly comes to a boil. From a stunning US court ruling that throws the entire global tariff regime into chaos to new restrictions on chip giants, the market is now entering a pivotal two-week gauntlet that will determine if the bull run can survive the arrival of a historically treacherous September. The immediate pain is being felt in the technology sector. Indexes in Japan, South Korea, and Australia all opened lower, with MSCI’s broad gauge of Asian shares sliding as much as 0.4 percent. The sell-off is a direct echo of Friday’s session in the US, where tech giants like Nvidia and Dell led a sharp retreat. The pressure on the chip sector intensified as South Korean titans Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. slid after the US Commerce…