SINGAPORE | Asian stocks fall on fears of softening US economic growth

SINGAPORE — Asian markets were mostly lower on Thursday as a mixed bag of data from the United States that could point to softening growth rattled investors.

KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was less than 0.1 percent lower at 21,504.00 and South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.2 percent to 2,071.94 in narrow trading. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index slipped under 0.1 percent to 25,962.07. The…