Asian shares lag Wall Street gains, dollar in doldrums

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares crept up 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 inched up 0.4 percent, with Taiwan leading the pack by adding 0.9 percent. Japan's Nikkei rose 0.2 percent in the wake of a firmer finish on Wall Street.