ASIAN currencies strengthened on Wednesday while most equities wobbled, with investors focused on US inflation data that can influence the Federal Reserve's interest rate trajectory.

The broad MSCI emerging markets currency index was up 0.1 percent while the MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.1 percent.

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