Tokyo/Shanghai — Asian shares eased on Monday, with investor sentiment hurt by a retreat on Wall Street and sliding Chinese stocks, while the euro skidded after German coalition talks hit an impasse.MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan extended losses and was down 0.2%. Australian shares were down 0.1%, while Japan’s Nikkei stock average was 0.6% lower.Stocks in China fell sharply after Beijing set sweeping new guidelines to regulate asset management products. Analysts said that could damp investor appetite for riskier assets.The Shanghai composite index was down 0.8%, while China’s blue-chip CSI300 index fell 0.7%. "The new guideline is not the last shoe to drop, or the last piece of bad news," said Li Huiyong, an economist at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities. "The era of tough financial supervision has just begun."On Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average shed 0.4%, the S&P 500 lost 0.3% and the Nasdaq composite index was down 0.2%. The US House of Representativ...
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