Taiwan Stocks Close Lower
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Taiwan shares ended lower Monday on concerns a new videotape of Osama bin Laden threatening the United States could spark panic selling on Wall Street on the last trading session before America&#39;s presidential election day.
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Tokyo stocks ended slightly lower on Friday as worries about record-high oil prices took the edge off investors&#39; appetite for recently battered technology issues such as Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd.
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U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday after a volatile trading session as investors continued to snap up safer assets like bonds, following Tuesday's global equities sell-off.
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Share prices closed broadly lower in Tokyo overnight, led by declines in commodity price-sensitive stocks. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell for the first time in four trading days, closing down 77.
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Tokyo's Nikkei stock average fell 1.21  percent by the close on Wednesday as investors took a breather  from the market's recent rises and sold shares of gainers  including tech issues, such as Canon Inc.
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Singapore shares ended lower Monday, hurt by below-expected third-quarter economic data that added to ongoing concerns over high oil prices and weakness on Wall Street.
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Asian stock markets closed mostly lower Tuesday on continued worries about the surge in global oil prices. Tokyo&#39;s benchmark Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues slipped 43.
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Stocks closed lower on Wednesday, after reports showed a deepening housing slump spreading into the job market and slowing consumer spending.
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UK blue chips closed lower on Friday, reflecting a weak showing on Wall Street as disappointment over earnings reports prompted a pull-back after yesterday&#39;s historic close above the 14,000 level for the first time, but with Friends Provident a major gainer on bid speculation.
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Tokyo stocks opened lower Monday as investors took a cue from Wall Street's weaker finish Friday. The dollar was down against the Japanese yen.
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TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese stocks are lower at midday Tuesday after Wall Street declined. Techs, banks and carmakers are in the red.
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Taiwan&#39;s stock market, the fifth- biggest in Asia, reopens this morning after a two-day shutdown caused by Typhoon Aere. The benchmark Taiex may drop on infrastructure damage, lost production
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The Australian sharemarket closed lower today, dragged down by weakness in resources and media stocks. The benchmark S&amp;P/ASX 200 index was 14.
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UK blue chips closed lower as Wall Street remained weaker after disappointing inflation data with Alliance & Leicester down after reporting a fall in core operating profit, held back by large scale write-downs.
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Asian stock markets closed lower on Tuesday, as concerns over the outlook for the US ahead of a slew of bank earnings and trumped initial technology-driven gains on better-than-expected results from companies including IBM, Samsung and LG Philips.
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Tokyo stocks finished lower Friday in the absence of fresh market-moving news, with Wall Street closed for Thanksgiving holiday. The U.S. dollar was lower against the Japanese yen.
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Leading shares closed lower, around the worst levels of the day, as US indices traded mixed, a Next profit warning hit retailers and ex-dividend stocks weighed, dealers said.