Singapore — Asian stocks, taking some cues from a steady Wall Street, edged up on Thursday while the path for the dollar, which crawled up from a four-month low, remained clouded by concern about the prospects for US President Donald Trump’s pro-growth agenda. Sterling was steady at $1.2483 following a decline of as much as 0.4% on Wednesday, after an attack close to Britain’s Parliament left five people dead, including the attacker and a police officer, and injured 40. Police said they believed the attacker was inspired by Islamist-related terrorism. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan advanced 0.2%. Japan’s Nikkei was flat despite a weaker yen, as a political scandal dented investor sentiment. The subject is the relationship of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife with a Japanese nationalist education group that bought state-owned land at a fraction of its appraised price to build an elementary school. China’s CSI 300 gained 0.4%, while Hong Kong’s Hang Se...
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