MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.2 percent in early trade, down 1.4 for the week.
Asian shares slipped on Friday and the dollar nursed losses in a week marked by growing uncertainty about the outcome of the US presidential election.
Investors have been unnerved in recent days by signs that the US presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump was tightening just days before Tuesday's vote.
That anxiety has rippled across global financial markets, with other events and data such as the looming US employment report playing second fiddle to the ramifications of a potential Trump presidency.
