HONG KONG — Oil shares pulled regional stock markets higher on Thursday after Opec members agreed to curb output in a surprise deal, though investors were wary of chasing markets higher as the US presidential election neared.MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.9% by mid-morning, thanks to a bounce in energy shares, but other markets such as Hong Kong were trading near the day’s lows after an early jump.Stocks in Europe were expected to open higher following Asia."Despite the favourable oil deal, foreign institutional investors are sticking to their favourite counters before the US election results as there is simply too much market uncertainty," said Andrew Sullivan, MD of sales trading at Halting International Securities Group in Hong Kong.Japan’s Nikkei climbed 1.5%, after losing 1.3% the previous day. In Hong Kong, the benchmark index was up 0.5% with energy-related shares the biggest gainers.Oil futures retreated in Asian trade as the market grew ...
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