TOKYO: The dollar hit a four-year peak against a basket of currencies in early Asian trade on Monday, bolstering Japanese shares, but other Asian shares shrugged off Friday's Wall Street rebound in the face of political unrest in Hong Kong.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.4%, hitting a 20-week low.
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