Tokyo — Asian shares edged up on Tuesday as investors hoped a new round of US-China trade talks would help to resolve a dispute that has dented global growth and some corporate earnings. Improving market sentiment was news that US legislators reached a tentative deal on border security funding that would avert another partial government shutdown due to start on Saturday. The S&P 500 e-mini futures were up more than 0.5%. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.3%. The Shanghai composite index rose 0.6%, South Korea’s Kopsi climbed 0.4% and Australian shares were up 0.4%. Japan’s Nikkei advanced 2% after a market holiday on Monday, lifted by a weaker yen. US and Chinese officials expressed hopes the new round of talks, which began in Beijing on Monday, would bring them closer to easing their months-long trade war. Beijing and Washington are trying to hammer out a deal before a March 1 deadline, without which US tariffs on $200bn worth of Chinese imports are...
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