HONG KONG: Share markets were jittery in Asia on Wednesday as trading was buffeted by a step-up in U.S. Treasury yields as well as volatile oil prices in the face of price-cooling moves by the United States and other nations.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.05%, while Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock price index fell 1.62% as investors returned from a holiday and caught up with global falls the day before.
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