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World stocks mixed before key growth data

AFP, London
World equities saw mixed fortunes on Tuesday, with many investors away for the Christmas and year-end holidays, as dealers awaited key economic growth data in 4 Britain and the United
States.
"We re looking at another dip lower at the open as markets continue the wind down for Christmas," added CMC Markets dealer Jimmy Yates.
In European morning deals, London gained 0.74 percent and Paris added 0.87
percent, while Frankfurt was up a marginal 0.02 percent.
The German market will be closed on Wednesday for Christmas Eve, while London and Paris wi 11 shut at the half-way stage ahead of Christmas Day onThursday.
At 0930 GMT on Tuesday, London investors will digest the third and final estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the third quarter of2008.
Britain's economy shrank 0.5 percent in the three months to September, placing it very close to recession, according to the previous
estimate given last month.
That marked the first quarterly contraction since 1992 and was the biggest drop since 1990 amid mounting gloom about the global financial crisis.
The economy had already screeched to a halt in the second quarter to record zero growth. The technical definition of a recession is two quarters running of negative economic growth, or contraction.
Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, third-quarter GDP numbers will also be released in the United States
laterTUesday.
"UK and US GDP readings will be closely watched and with expectations low for both, any positive surprises could help provide some festive cheer," added Yates.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, fears of sweeping job losses caused by the global economic crunch deepened with more layoffs, as governments took added measures to ease the impact of the crisis.
The Hong Kong stock market shed 2.8 percent and Shanghai sank 4.55 percent
as a srnaller-than-expected Chinese interest rate cut failed to boost market sentiment, dealers said. Tokyo was closed for a public holiday.
China's central bank has unveiled its fifth interest rate cut since September, but it failed to stimulate investors concerned at the scale of the downturn being felt across the globe.
The People's Bank of China has meanwhile cut the benchmark one-year lending and deposit rates by 27 basis points, the fifth cut since mid-September.