Oil dents Asian shares, dollar eases

SINGAPORE, Apr 12 (Reuters) Oil nudged above a barrel on Wednesday on worries over a nuclear standoff with Iran, which pushed most Asian share markets lower but stoked demand for gold.

The dollar weakened against the yen ahead of U.S. trade data, while gold held below 0 an ounce as investors booked profits after pushing the price to a level not seen since December, 1980.

Copper and zinc prices paused, a day after copper hit a record high above ,000 a tonne and zinc set a record high just below