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By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares were on the backfoot on Thursday following mixed cues from Wall Street where a sharp sell-off in the largest bitcoin exchange COINBASE hit tech shares while the dollar index struggled near one-month lows. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan paused after two straight days of gains. It was last at 690.53, a long way from a record high of 745.89 touched in February. Japan’s Nikkei rose 0.2% while South Korea’s KOSPI index was up a tad. Australia’s benchmark index slipped 0.4% as miners were dented by weaker prices for iron ore…
