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Asian stocks close mostly down

AFP, Hong Kong
Asian stocks closed mostly down Tuesday, with China and India tumbling, as soaring oil prices and a huge rise in iron ore costs stoked fears about the economic damage from surginginflation.
The Indian market plunged over 3.7 percent, while Chinese stocks slid just over three percent, as this year's sell-off in Asian equities continued amid concerns the commodity boom threatens to choke economic growth.
Crude oil traded around 141 dollars per barrel on Tuesday, rising back towards record levels of just under 144 dollars struck at the start of the week.
Meanwhile, Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto said it had reached agreement with all its customers in Asia for huge iron ore price increases of up to 97 percent.
Both the oil price and news of Rio's deal intensified existing concerns that rising inflation threatens consumer spending, business profits and economic growth, particularly if interest rates go up to tame
prices.
Among other markets. Japan closed little changed, while Taiwan and Singapore all turn bled around 1.5 percent.
The Japanese bourse held up despite a central bank survey showing top Japanese executives are at their most pessimistic in almost five years.
South Korea was also in the red, and most of Asia's smaller markets fell too. But resourcerich Indonesia managed to buck the trend, rising 1.3 per cent, while the bourses in Hong Kong and Thailand were shut.
Apart from inflation, investors were also worried about the fallout from the credit crisis in the ailing US economy, the world's biggest.
TOKYO: Japanese share prices closed down 0.13 per cent, declining for a ninth straight session following news of a sharp drop in business confidence in Asia's largest economy, dealers said.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei-225 index dropped 18.18 points or 0.13 percent to end at 13,463.20. The broader Topix index of all first-section shares slipped 0.03 points to 1,320.07.
Analysts said that soaring costs, slowing global economic growth and a stronger yen were all squeezing profits and hittingconfidence
SHANGHAI: Chinese share prices closed down 3.09 percent, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite index, which covets A and B shares, closed down 84.33 points at 2,651.77 on turnover of 43.0 billion yuan (6.2 billion dollars).
"Though the valuation of the general market is at a low level, investors still stay on the sidelines as big shareholders continue to cut stakes in listed companies," Wu Feng at TX Investment told Dow Jones Newswires.
TAIPEI: Taiwan share prices closed down 1.5 percent, deal ers said. The weighted index closed down 115.56 points at the day's low of 7,407.98 on thin trading volume of 86.06 billion Taiwan dollars (2.83 billion US).
SEOUL: South Korean share prices closed 0.5 percent lower, dealers said. The index ended down 8.46 points or 0.5 percent at 1,666.46. Volume was 271.79 million shares worth 4.22 trillion won (4.03
billion dollars).
SINGAPORE: Singapore share prices closed 1.38 percent lower, dealers said. The blue chip Straits Times Index (STI) fell 40.75 points to 2,906.79 on slim volume of 873 million shares worth 1.03 billion dollars (757 million US dollars).
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian share prices closed down 1.0 percent, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index dropped 11.74 points to 1,174.83.
JAKAR TA: Indonesian shares closed 1.3 percent higher, dealers said. The Jakarta Composite Index rose 29.70 points to 2,378.80.
MANILA: Philippine share prices closed 1.8 percent lower, dealers said. The composite index closed 44.73 points down at 2,415.25 points, its lowest finish in almost two years. The allshares index fell 1.69 percent to 1,545.04 points.
MUMBAI: Indian shares closed down 3.71 percent, dealers said.
The benchmark Mumbai 30-share Sensex index fell 499.92 points to 12,961.68, a 14-month low.