Index: Cent and Asia-Pacific Shares

index: MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan shed 0.18 per cent, according to Nine News Australia. Australian stocks rose 0.16 per cent, South Korea's KOSPI fell 0.35 per cent and Japan's Nikkei climbed 0.35 per cent. To improve your experience update it here News World Asia stocks track Wall St lower10 56am Aug 24, stocks have tracked Wall Street losses and edged down in early trade, but the US dollar was buoyant after ending a long losing run ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The S&P 500 shed 0.17 per cent overnight to pull back slightly from a record high scaled midweek, with industrial shares sagging after the United States and China imposed a fresh round of trade tariffs on each other. Caterpillar shares fell 2.0 per cent, and Boeing shares fell 0.7 per cent. Shares of industrial giants Caterpillar Inc and Boeing Co, which have been bellwethers of trade sentiment, were among the biggest drags on the Dow, which lost about 0.3 per cent. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.