Asian shares edged up on Monday in cautious trade, brushing off soft economic data from China, as investors looked to whether the U.S. Federal Reserve is confident enough to raise interest rates for the first time in a decade. U.S. stock futures (ESc1) rose 0.4 percent from late U.S. levels in early Asian trade while Japan’s Nikkei (.N225) rose 0.4 percent. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 0.3 percent.