Asian shares bask in Wall Street's glow
By Lisa Twaronite TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares gained in early trading on Friday, on track for a weekly rise, after Wall Street cheered a cool reading for producer price inflation that chilled expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.3 percent higher, poised to gain about 1 percent for the week. Japan's Nikkei stock index was up 0.5 percent, set for a 1.5 percent weekly rise. On Wall Street, all three major indexes
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