Stocks gain after China cuts trade tariffs, solid U.S. data

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks edged up on Thursday, cheered by record closes in Wall Street benchmarks after encouraging economic data, and after China announced a cut in tariffs on some imported goods from the United States.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 1.3% while Japan's Nikkei rose 2.47%. Mainland Chinese shares also reacted positively, with the bluechip CSI300 index up 0.97%.U.S. stock futures rose 0.5% while China's onshore yuan rose 0.2% to its..