Asian stocks struggle to build on Wall Street gains, dollar rises

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was steady after two days of declines, but the mood was hardly bullish. Japan's Nikkei returned from a two-day holiday to drop 0.6%. Markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong opened flat, the ASX 200 rose 1.6% and South Korea's Kospi fell 0.8% on a jump in coronavirus infections.

from Markets-Economic Times https://ift.tt/32Z19zP