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Article: 1st LD-Writethru: Chinese stock prices down 2.5 percent upon profit- taking
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 9, 2008
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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 ...