Article: 1st LD-Writethru: Chinese stock prices down 2.5 percent upon profit- taking

1st LD-Writethru: Chinese stock prices down 2.5 percent upon profit-taking

BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Share prices on Chinese capital markets Tuesday ended their upward adjustments of the last six consecutive trading days to fall more than 2.5 percent upon profit- taking and worries about possibly unsatisfactory economic data.

The central bank is to release data about money supply and performance of the financial sector for November later this week. Foreign trade figures and price indices for last month are also to be unveiled in the coming days. Investors forecast the data would be not upbeat.

Tuesday saw the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lose 53.03 points, or 2.54 percent, to ...

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