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STOCKS: Japanese stocks went into the lunch break in negative territory, the

Nikkei 225 currently down 15.66pts at 19713.61

-7 of 11 sectors are in the red, biggest negative mover was financials and

biggest positive mover was energy.

-Andrew Clarke, an Asian Equities trader at Mirabaud in HK said there was a big

focus in HK on the stock Tencent Holdings, he predicted it would 'rip on the

open' and it did bounce around 4%.

-He also predicted the Hang Seng Futures Index would jump around 180pts on the

open and sure enough they jumped around 171pts, he said post open 'if it wasn't

for Tencent we would be down a lot more.'

-European stocks were bolstered by the strong GDP data for the Eurozone with

Eurostoxx up 0.6% which helped limit some negative sentiment.

-USD/JPY dropped below the stubborn 110 barrier today and is at 109.87, the

dollar suffering after the FOMC minutes which has also negatively impacted

Japanese stocks. The ASX is up about 5pts with another gain in Aussie jobs data

failing to lift the index.