Stocks stumble as ‘dollar juggernaut’ on a roll


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Passersby are reflected on an electric stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia's stockmarkets dipped on Friday, with tech shares tumbling on deepening Sino-U.S. tensions, while the dollar was set to seal its longest winning streak in nine years as investors braced for U.S. interest rates to stay higher for longer. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.2% in early trade and is down 1.4% for the week. Hong Kong markets were closed for the morning due to storms lashing the city. Japan's Nikkei fell 0.8%. Some $200 billion...