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Stock market today: Asian shares mostly lower, Japan's Nikkei 225 falls 2.5%

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Asian shares were mostly lower on Monday after Wall Street’s huge rally faltered last week.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 index shed 2.5% to 38,704.10. The government issued revised figures showing the economy grew 0.1% in the last quarter of the year, better than the minus 0.1% reported earlier but lower than forecasts.

That means the economy is not in a technical recession, though it's expanding at a snail's pace.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng

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