Overview: Fading hopes that a Brexit agreement can be struck is seeing sterling trade broadly lower, while China's demand that US tariffs be rescinded in exchange for a commitment to buy $40-50 bln of US agricultural goods over two years makes the handshake agreement less secure. At the same time, Hong Kong is becoming another front in the US-Sino confrontation. Asia-Pacific stocks moved higher, except China and India. The Nikkei and Topix gapped higher for the third consecutive session and set new highs for the year today. The market appears over-extended, and with the yen