Asian shares climb on prospects of trade progress, low rates

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Asian shares ticked higher on Wednesday as more upbeat signals from Sino-U.S. trade talks fanned hopes of an imminent end to tariff hostilities, which helped offset concerns about a slowing U.S. economy.The positive mood pushed Wall Street indexes to fresh record closing highs on Tuesday and stoked confidence in early Asian trade with MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan up 0.14%. Australian shares added 0.46% and Japan's Nikkei rose 0.41%.U.S...