Bursa Malaysia slipped deeper into the red in late afternoon trade on Friday with over 1,000 counters falling, tracking the falls in key Asian markets on worries about the outlook for tech giants.
FBM KLCI was down 28.76 points or 1.92% to 1,466.44. Turnover was 4.05 billion shares valued at RM2.37bil. There were 147 gainers, 1,056 losers and 248 stocks unchanged.
Key Asian markets fell with South Korea's Kospi down 2.56%, Japan's Nikkei 225 1.52% and the Topix 1.96% while the Shanghai Composite lost 1.49% and Singapore's STI 0.93%.
Top Glove lost 21 sen to RM8.57 and erased 2.59 points while Hartalega lost six cents to RM17.96 and shed 0.31 of a point.