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• European markets were expected to open lower Tuesday morning, as investors continued to monitor the latest corporate earnings reports and kept a close eye on Spain's constitutional crisis.
Looking to the major bourses, the U.K.'s FTSE 100 is expected to open 12 points lower at 7,510, while the German DAX is set to start on a negative note, down 13 points at 12,987, and the French CAC is poised to open down 10 points at 5,378, according to IG.
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• Asian shares held near recent decade highs on Tuesday and major currencies kept to narrow ranges, while the New Zealand dollar stumbled to five-month lows as the incoming Labour coalition’s policies unsettled investors.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.1 percent weak at 548.49 points, not far from a 10-year high of 554.63 set last week.
• Japan’s Nikkei share average extended its record winning streak to 16 days on Tuesday, supported by buying of large-cap stocks, while Yaskawa Electric tumbled after disappointing investors with tepid profit forecasts.
The Nikkei, which was down part of the day, rose 0.5 percent to end at 21,805.17.
• China’s blue-chip stocks reached a 26-month high on Tuesday, led by infrastructure and property shares, as investors cheered robust earnings growth and felt comfortable with economic policy as the Communist Party’s congress drew to a close.
The blue-chip CSI300 index rose 0.7 percent, to 3,959.40 points, while the Shanghai Composite Index added 0.2 percent to 3,388.25 points.
Reference: Reuters, CNBC
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