Stocks pressured by growth worries, focus on PMIs

31 January 2012, 9:57 pm

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stock markets struggled on Wednesday as weaker U.S. data damped down recent optimism that the world's largest economy may escape the gloom from the euro zone debt crisis, while Chinese manufacturing surveys failed to break the cautious mood. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.3 percent at 0300 GMT, after spending the first few hours of ...... Read More »

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