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

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares rose to their highest in eight months on Tuesday, as trade deal optimism and Wall Street's streak 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 0.4% to its highest since April. Japan's Nikkei hit its firmest in more than year and Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose half a percent. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 eked a tiny extension to Monday's big..