Shares set fresh records, lifted by U.S. housing data
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Key world equity indexes scaled new highs on Friday as the latest U.S. data - a surge in housing starts to the highest level since 2006 - drove stocks on Wall Street to records and investors away from risk-adverse assets such as the yen.Optimism over corporate earnings and indications of resilience in China's economy also lifted equities, led the dollar to gain further against the euro and pushed government debt yields higher.Housing starts jumped 16.9% to a seasonally..