Asian shares slip to three-week low

Asian shares slipped to three-week lows on Friday as the release of a whistle-blower complaint against US President Donald Trump added to worries about the global economy, already reeling from the China-US trade war.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan lost 0.35%, having fallen 1.65% so far this week, while Japan’s Nikkei slid 1.30%...

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