Asian shares edge down, dollar flat as markets monitor Greece

Asian shares edged down and the dollar was treading water in early Asian trade on Thursday, with investors on ice ahead of a meeting of European Union leaders later in the session as Greece continued last-minute efforts to avert a default. Athens's talks with creditors bogged down on details, with next week's deadline to repay 1.6 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund looming, and threatening to trigger Greece's removal from the euro zone. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down about 0.1 percent.

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