** Aussie tech stocks  .AXIJ  skid 2.6% to their lowest
level since Nov. 11
    ** Sub-index set to fall for a fourth straight session
    ** Overnight, Wall Street ended sharply lower with the
tech-heavy Nasdaq  .IXIC  down nearly 10% from its February
record high, after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell failed to
ease concerns over rising longer-term U.S. bond yields  .N 
    ** Shares of accounting software maker Xero Ltd  XRO.AX 
down 3.4%, buy-now-pay-later bellwether Afterpay  APT.AX  sheds
2.9%
    ** Up to Thursday's close, the sub-index had fallen 11.9%
this year

 (Reporting by Shashwat Awasthi in Bengaluru)
 ((Shashwat.Awasthi@thomsonreuters.com))