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Asian shares down, Europe's retreat

AFP, Hong Kong
Asian shares closed mostly down Wednesday with investors seemingly worried that an expected US interest rate cut may fail to boost stock prices in the face of a global economic slowdown.
Forecasters said the Federal Reserve would cut US borrowing costs by up to 50 basis points later Wednesday after it made an emergency 75 basis points cut last week to 3.50 percent.
But the share price fails across Asia suggested investors were betting that stocks already reflected predictions of lower US rates, potentially crimping the scope for more rises in the short term.
Meanwhile, Europe's main stock exchanges retreated on Wednesday, as investors digested more negative subprime news ahead of a vital interest rate decision from the US Federal Reserve, dealers said.
Key US economic figures are also due out this week, causing more jitters as they could confirm fears that the world's biggest economy is heading for a sharp slowdown or even a recession.
Such worries helped send Tokyo down nearly one percent, while Seoul fell three percent. The region's key bourses all ended down, with only the
smaller markets in Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila rising
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that the global economy would grow 4.1 percent in 2008, down 0.3 per centage points from a previous estimate.
It forecast the US economy would expand by 1.5 percent, 0.4 points lower than its earlier prediction.
The US central bank was tipped to trim rates again later on Wednesday after last week's steep emergency cut that was aimed at steadying volatile world stock markets.
In Europe on Wednesday, the Paris CAC 40 of leading shares dived 1.54 percent to 4,865.16 points, London's FTSE 100 fell 0.85 percent to 5,835.30 and Frankfurt's D/\X 30 dropped 0.67 percent to 6,846.45.
The financial sector in Europe was hit after Swiss banking giant UBS said it would post a loss of 4.4 billion Swiss francs (3.5 billion dollars, 2.75 billion euros) in 2007 owing to its exposure to the US subprime housing sector crisis.
Later Wednesday, some analysts expect that the US Federal Reserve will slash rates by a half-point, which would take the key federal funds rate to 3.00 percent.