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Asian shares, euro firmer on Fed easing hopes
Asian shares edged higher on Wednesday on hopes the U.S. central bank has left the door open for more stimulus measures later in the year, after chairman Ben Bernanke outlined a gloomy view of the U.S. economic recovery. Quarterly earnings from the likes of Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and Coca-Cola (KO.N) came in better than expected, calming concerns about the impact of the global slowdown and underpinning mild gains in stocks. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was up 0.3 percent while Japan's Nikkei stock average .N225 opened up 0.5 percent. In his testimony to the Senate Banking ... (full story)
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