Investors can’t decide which scares them more right now, a bond market poised for massive changes as interest rates keep rising, or a stock market that has reached record highs despite a weak economy.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian share markets were mostly under water on Tuesday while currencies dithered in tight ranges as a dearth of major economic news left investors to fret on the outlook for monetary policy in the United States and Europe.

They allowed just 28 points in their final nine games, and even held their opponents scoreless in five of them.

Four years after the recession officially ended, many American adults are still struggling to recover financially with lower incomes and, in some cases, going hungry, according to two surveys released on Thursday that underscored the unevenness of the U.S