SEOUL/SINGAPORE, June 22 (Reuters): A firmer US dollar restrained gains across emerging Asian currencies on Monday, while worries about a second wave of coronavirus infections kept a lid on most stock markets, with Thailand and the Philippines in the red.
The trillions of dollars in fiscal and monetary stimulus delivered by governments and central banks globally continues to prop up stocks and other riskier investments, and MSCI's index of Asian shares ex-Japan was up around 0.4% in morning trade.
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