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Asian stocks dip as Santa snubs Wall Street
Asian stocks dip as Santa snubs Wall Street

Asian stocks ended the year in the red on Tuesday after worries about 2025 and profit-taking turned Wall Street's usual holiday-period "Santa Claus rally" into a mini-rout. Tokyo was shut on Tuesday, with the Nikkei 225 posting on Monday its best year-end close since Japan's asset bubble burst in the 1990s.