MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.5 percent, led by losses in resource shares. Japan's Nikkei shed 1 percent. Copper, often seen as a good gauge of the world's economic health because of its extensive industrial use, fell to a six-year low of $4,800 per tonne, breaking below its August trough. Oil prices also fell near 6 1/2-year lows touched in August. (A Reuters file picture shows passersby reflected on a stock quotation board at a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2015.)
SHANGHAI: Asian stocks were flat in early trade on Wednesday after Wall Street ended higher, with the S&P 500 index touching a record high on Tuesday, and as lower-level trade talks between the U.S. and China due this week boost hopes of easing trade tensions.
But concerns over the broader impact of the legal problems of two close associates of U.S. President Donald Trump pulled S&P futures lower, weighing on investor sentiment.
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