Asia shares, bonds spooked by central bank jitters

Asian shares slipped on Monday with investors rattled by rising bond yields and talk the Federal Reserve might be serious about lifting U.S. interest rates as early as next week. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.1 percent and away from a 13-month peak. Reports that the Bank of Japan was considering ways to steepen the Japanese yield curve, along with speculation that central banks more generally were running short on fresh stimulus measures, slugged sovereign deb