SYDNEY (Reuters) -Japanese and Taiwanese shares set records on Thursday as technology companies rallied while investors wagered that U.S. inflation data will be well behaved enough to ensure an interest rate cut next week, and perhaps two more by year end. Before then, the European Central Bank is widely expected to hold rates steady later in the day but a fraught trade and political outlook means it will likely keep alive the prospect of further easing. Meanwhile, oil prices held gains after Poland downed suspected Russian drones in its airspace and as the U.S. pushed the EU to impose new sanctions on buyers of Russian oil.
