Asian stocks ride Wall St. momentum to 17-month peak, pound slips

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares rose to their highest in more than a year on Tuesday, as trade deal optimism and Wall Street's run to all-time highs supported sentiment, while familiar fears of a hard Brexit knocked the pound.The mood carried MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan up 0.6% to its highest since July 2018. Japan's Nikkei hit its firmest in more than year, Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose almost a percent.Korea's Kospi stood at its highest since May and Shanghai..