MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was off 0.1 percent in early trade. Japan’s Nikkei stock index (.N225) rose 0.5 percent. Both the Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) and the S&P 500 (.SPX) closed at record highs, the third straight for the latter, after lackluster economic data raised hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve would hold off raising interest rates.