Most share markets in the region stayed in the red with Tokyo off 0.6 percent, Sydney 0.45 percent and Shanghai 0.2 percent.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan pared its losses but was still down 0.2 percent.
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