Forget the US dollar, Asia stock pickers focus on growth

SINGAPORE: Asia’s professional stock pickers were so busy putting a flood of investor money to work across the region this week that a turnaround in the fortunes of the US dollar barely raised eyebrows. 

Traditionally, moves in the greenback can quickly translate into buying or selling of shares in the region’s big exporters like South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Taiwanese microchip makers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.