MSCI's gauge of Asia Pacific stocks outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) was up 0.08% at 0126 GMT, after dropping 0.06% an hour earlier.
"Asian equities are set for a downturn on Tuesday, prompted by Wall Street's risk-aversion behavior," said Anderson Alves, a global macro analyst at ActivTrades.
All three major U.S. stock indexes ended in the red on Monday, with megacap momentum stocks pulling the tech-heavy Nasdaq down the most.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) fell 0.04%, the S&P 500 (.SPX) lost 0.45% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.16%.
Hang Seng Index (.HSI) and China's benchmark CSI300 Index (.CSI300) opened up 0.3% and 0.1%, respectively, shaking off losses from the past four sessions.
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