Asia-Pacific markets trade mixed on Thursday as investors continued to weigh U.S. President Donald Trump's recent trade policy announcement. Investors also responded to China's latest move to reverse its sluggish stock market by prompting insurance funds to raise the size and proportion of their investments in Chinese A-shares,
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The dollar steadied against major peers on Thursday, continuing its near paralysis of the past two days before more concrete announcements on tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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