Asia Suffers China Hangover; Dollar Scales 2023 Top on Yen

Asia Suffers China Hangover; Dollar Scales 2023 Top on Yen
Passersby walk past an electric board displaying Japan's Nikkei share average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 2023. Issei Kato/Reuters
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SYDNEY—Asian shares slid on Monday as China’s property woes amplified the case for serious stimulus even as Beijing seems deaf to the calls, while rising Treasury yields lifted the dollar to a 2023 peak on the embattled yen.

Geopolitics was an added worry after a Russian warship on Sunday fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea, heralding a new stage of the war that could impact on oil and food prices.