Asia shares edge ahead with oil, pound slips
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian share markets edged cautiously higher on Monday as investors awaited 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 0.7 percent, having rebounded more than 4 percent last week. Japan's Nikkei recouped early losses to rise 0.7 percent, buoyed by a retreat in the yen even as an
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