Tokyo — Asian shares gained on Wednesday after Wall Street managed to weather a fresh twist in the controversy over US President Donald Trump’s alleged connection with Russia, while investors looked ahead to Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen’s comments. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan ticked up 0.4%. Japan’s yen-sensitive Nikkei slid 0.3% on the yen’s gains but MSCI’s dollar-denominated Japan index gained 0.4%. US stocks took a brief tumble after e-mails disclosed Trump’s eldest son welcomed help from a Russian lawyer for his father’s 2016 election campaign against Hillary Clinton. But by the closing bell, Wall Street shares had clawed back their losses. "The e-mails look pretty bad but then again they don’t look like decisive evidence [for illegal behaviour] either. I doubt this alone would lead to a risk-off market," said Hiroko Iwaki, senior fixed income strategist at Mizuho Securities. US shares were helped in part as the Senate announced a two-w...
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