SINGAPORE: Asian stock markets struggled to make headway on Wednesday, while safe havens such as gold and the Japanese yen firmed as surging coronavirus infections in the United States took some of the shine off better-than-expected factory activity in China.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched 0.2% higher, led by a 0.8% rise in Chinese blue chips. But Japan's Nikkei fell 0.8%.
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