Asia Shares End Mixed; Europe Falls
Updated from 4:39 a.m. EST
NEW YORK (
) -- Shares in Asia ended mixed Tuesday as traders awaited key data releases while European stocks were slightly lower.
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 stock average declined 0.2% to 10,567.65 ahead of the release Wednesday of trade data from China and Japanese machinery orders. Shares of
Toyota
(TM) - Get Report
fell 0.6%.
Stocks in Hong Kong rose 0.05% and Shanghai's benchmark index gained 0.5%.
Stocks in London fell 0.7%, and shares in Frankfurt and Paris both fell 0.5%.
Premarket futures suggested stocks would open lower on Wall Street Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the market hitting 12-year lows.
In New York Monday, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average
fell about 14 points, or 0.1%, to end at 10,552.52. The
S&P 500
fell 0.02% and
Nasdaq
rose 0.25%.
-- Reported by Joseph Woelfel in New York.
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