Global Markets: Coronavirus anxiety weighs on Asian stocks, boosts safe-haven bid Updated : January 30, 2020 08:33 AM IST MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.8 percent to an almost seven-week low. Japan's Nikkei fell 1 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng extended Wednesday's drop and Taiwan's benchmark index opened 1.5 percent lower.