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A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland The feel-good factor that lifted stocks overnight fizzled on Friday, with neither gains on Wall Street – including another record for the S&P 500 – nor the afterglow of China’s deep cuts in bank reserve requirements able to keep Asian stocks afloat. Mainland and Hong Kong-listed shares started the day with a slight pop higher but quickly turned lower, while Japan’s Nikkei erased the last of the gains for the week that had taken it to a 34-year peak on Tuesday. Enthusiasm was drained by events on Wall Street after the cl…

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