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Chinese shares lurched lower in late-trading on Tuesday, depressing Asian stock markets which succumbed to nerves over the possibility of a falling yuan and a deadly bomb explosion in Thailand. A positive handover from Wall Street did little to help sentiment; the tech-heavy Nasdaq led gains with a 0.9 percent rise overnight, as investors scooped up battered biotech plays, while the and the S&P 500 notched up 0.4 and 0.5 percent, respectively, on the back of positive homebuilder data.

