Asia shares brace for industry data, pound slips

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian share markets got off to a cautious start on Monday as investors await a rush of February industry surveys to take the pulse of the global economy, while sterling suffered on concerns the UK might yet vote to leave the European Union. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.1 percent, having rebounded more than 4 percent last week. Japan's Nikkei eased 0.4 percent, hampered by the strength of the yen.