BEIJING – Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Tuesday as surging coronavirus infections in the United States and some other countries tempered investor optimism about development of possible vaccines.Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul declined.Overnight, Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.2% as health care, financial and energy stocks declined.Investor worries have risen as some U.S.
states and European countries reimpose anti-virus curbs on travel and business, threatening to drag down shaky economic activity in what is expected to be a bleak winter.“'Too much, too soon' was arguably the memo sent to market bulls,” said Mizuho Bank in a report.