Asian shares lackluster as growth worries weigh
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares edged lower on Tuesday after Germany’s business confidence fell in September for a fifth consecutive month and Caterpillar Inc , the world’s largest earth moving equipment maker, cut its earnings forecast, underscoring worries about slowing global growth. Uncertainty about the bailout prospects for Greece and Spain, as the euro zone’s three-year-long debt crisis rumbles on, also weighed on investors’ risk appetite. The MSCI index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was choppy, caught in a plus 0. 1 and minus 0. 1 percent range. . . .
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