Asian shares jolted by weak Chinese data, growth risks
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares tumbled on Friday after China reported a set of weak data, fanning fresh worries of a sharp slowdown in the world's second-biggest economy and leaving investors fretting over the wider impact of a yet unresolved Sino-U.S. trade dispute. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 1.4 percent, while Japan's Nikkei dropped 2.1 percent. Mainland China's benchmark Shanghai Composite and the blue-chip CSI 300 declined 0.6 percent and 0.9 percent,..