Asia shares track Wall St higher, dollar becalmed

By Wayne Cole
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares edged ahead on Monday as Wall Street gathered momentum into a busy week of earnings with more than 100 major companies due to report, while the dollar was again hobbled by a lack of progress on U.S. fiscal stimulus.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.MIAPJ0000PUS> inched up 0.3 percent, with Australia <.AXJO> ahead by 0.5 percent.
Japan’s Nikkei <.N225> rose 0.7 percent in the wake of a f