Asia shares shrug off losses, dollar wallows

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added about 0.2 percent, after Wall Street ended with modest gains on Friday even as the S&P 500 still suffered its biggest weekly decline in two months. Japan's Nikkei stock index was off its session lows but still ended down 0.4 percent. In addition to a stronger currency, data released early on Monday showed Japan's core machinery orders fell 9.2 percent in February from the previous month, in a sign that business investment remai