Asia stocks edge higher, dollar languishes on U.S. politics, mixed data

China’s blue-chip CSI 300 lost 0.3 percent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.1 percent … and held near that level on Friday, after the Bank of England’s policymakers kept interest rates at a record-low 0.25 percent. “The unsavory combination of …
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