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Asia stocks slump amid poor German debt auction
Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday amid mixed economic data out of the U.S. and fears that the German economy _ Europe’s strongest _ may be succumbing to the continent’s debt crisis.
Japan’s Nikkei 225, reopening after a one-day public holiday, fell 1.5 percent at 8,186.58. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost 0.7 percent at 17,730.57. Benchmarks in New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore also fell.
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