Asian Shares Hit Recent High On Trade Optimism

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares climbed to a 3-1/2-week high on Wednesday and European and U.S. markets looked set to follow on growing optimism that the United States and China were inching toward a trade deal that could lift a major threat to the global economy. A man walks past an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .