asian stocks dropped by the most in over a month as hawkish remarks by us federal reserve chairman jerome powell sparked selling in the region’s technology giants the msci asia pacific index fell as much as 2 with alibaba group holding ltd and sony group corp among the biggest drags hong kong’s hang seng tech index fell more than 3 while south korea’s techheavy kospi was on course to enter a bear market some financials gained after treasury yields climbed overnight