Global stocks, dollar wobble on weak U.S. data

By Lisa Twaronite TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares struggled to find their footing on Tuesday after downbeat U.S. economic data contributed to an uninspiring session on Wall Street and pressured the dollar. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.05 percent after wavering for most of the early session. Japan's Nikkei skidded 0.8 percent in early trading, not helped by mixed economic data released before the market opened.