Stock market today: World shares are mixed following slight gains…

BANGKOK (AP) – European shares opened lower Thursday after strong advances in Asia led by rallies in Chinese markets. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices fell. Germany’s DAX lost 0.1% to 16,729.35 and the CAC 40 in Paris also edged 0.1% lower, to 7,563.03. Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 2 points at 7,722.88. The future for the S&P 500 was virtually unchanged and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.1%. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index was an outlier in Asia, shedding 0.4% to 33,539.62. Speculation over whether and when the Bank of Japan might ease its longstanding lax monetary policy and raise its key interest rate from minus 0.1% has kept stocks wobbling in the world’s third-largest economy.…

Source: Daily Mail Online
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