Tokyo — Asian stocks wobbled on Wednesday but still marked a 10-year high, cheered by record highs on Wall Street, while shares of Apple’s suppliers dipped following the release of the latest iPhone. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was slightly lower, after earlier poking up to its highest level since October 2007. Australian shares added 0.2%, while Korean shares were 0.1% higher. On Tuesday, the S&P 500, Dow Jones industrials and Nasdaq Composite all marked record finishes as investors’ concern faded about North Korean tension as well as the impact of Hurricane Irma. "In the US we had a bit of unwinding of the fear trade that it’s been going through and that’s flowing through to us as well," said Mathan Somasundaram, a market portfolio strategist with Blue Ocean Equities in Sydney. US gains were kept in check, however, by a decline in shares of Apple after it unveiled its newest line of iPhones. Apple fell 0.6% but pared some losses in after-hours trade....
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