Asian stocks fell, with the benchmark regional index on course for its first loss in three days, as the yen’s gain weighed on Japanese exporters and U.S. jobs data missed estimates.

Nikkei 225 14,258.04 -208.12 -1.44%

Hang Seng 22,224.82 +33.85 +0.15%

S&P/ASX 200 5,111.25 -5.51 -0.11%

Shanghai Composite 2,050.48 +21.06 +1.04%

Mazda Motor Corp., an automaker that gets 30 percent of its sales in North America, dropped 4.1 percent in Tokyo.

Fonterra Shareholders Fund tumbled 3.7 percent in Wellington after China and Russia halted imports of milk powder from Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd., the world’s largest dairy exporter.

Tianneng Power International Ltd., a maker of storage batteries, tumbled as much as 19 percent before it was was suspended from trading in Hong Kong.