HONG KONG (AFP): Asian investors welcomed a forecast-busting US jobs report to send Asian equities higher on Friday (July 3), though an acceleration in the virus through the world's top economy continued to temper big gains.
While the US registered more than 50,000 new cases for a second straight day and authorities across the country reimposed containment measures, traders backed up with a wall of government and central bank cash chose to look to the positives.
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