Singapore/Boston — Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday on relief that another round of Sino-US sparring appears not to have spilt over into trade, while hopes for US stimulus lent support to oil and commodity currencies.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was last up 1%. Japan’s Nikkei returned from a holiday with a 1.7% gain led by health-care and industrial stocks and the Hang Seng bounced 2.2%...
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