Asia stocks open higher on record for MSCI’s All-Country World Index

Asia stocks opened higher on Tuesday, cruising in the slipstream of a record high overnight gauge of global equity markets, with investors hoping for inflation and monetary policy clues later in a week full of key central bank meetings and data points.

Australia’s S & P / ASX 200 (.AXJO) was up 0.32% at 0130GMT, while Japan’s Nikkei 225 (.N225) edged up 0.35%, as the country revised first-quarter data showing the economy shrank at a slower pace than initially reported. read more

MSCI’s gauge of Asia Pacific stocks outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) rose 0.11%, following the path taken by its …