[Reuters] – Asian share markets rose to five-month highs on Tuesday, taking their cue from gains on Wall Street after a strike in Kuwait helped pull crude oil prices above their prior-session lows. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.7 percent, after touching its highest intraday levels since November. Japan’s Nikkei stock index was up 3.5 percent in early trading, a day after it fell 3.4 percent as investors assessed the impact of earthquakes in southwestern Japan’s Kyushu on manufacturers’ supply chains.
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