Asian shares retreat as investors question US economic strength
By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian share markets were mildly weaker on Tuesday as global investors consider the prospect the U.S. economy’s ‘exceptionalism’ is starting to unwind as manufacturing activity in the world’s largest economy further weakened. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.1%, after U.S. stocks ended the previous