TOKYO: Asian shares eased on Friday, with China's factory activity data and a U.S. jobs report due later in the session making investors cautious as the escalating euro zone debt crisis threatened to further undermine growth worldwide.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.1 percent. It ended May with a 10.9 percent slide, its worst monthly performance in eight months.
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