Asian shares tread cautiously ahead of U.S. payrolls

By Lisa Twaronite TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares edged higher in early trade on Friday and oil prices continued to rebound, even as investors remained wary ahead of the key U.S. nonfarm payrolls report for January later in the session. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up about 0.1 percent. On Wall Street on Thursday, major indexes all ended with gains of 1 percent or more, and a corresponding rise in U.S. Treasury yields underpinned the U.S. dollar's lift