[Reuters] – SINGAPORE/SYDNEY, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Asian shares rallied on Thursday, taking their cue from Wall Street, after the Federal Reserve left U.S. interest rates unchanged and slowed the pace of future hikes, knocking the dollar and lifting commodity prices. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan extended gains to 1.3 percent in its sixth straight session of increases, just 1.1 percent shy of its one-year high touched earlier this month. Asia’s strong gains follow surges of 1.1 percent for the S&P 500, 0.9 percent for the Dow Jones industrial average and 1.3 percent for the Nasdaq Composite, which closed at a record high.
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