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Chinese shares close lower Tuesday

Xinhua, May 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese stocks closed lower on Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.77 percent, at 2,821.67 points.

The smaller Shenzhen index closed 0.97 percent lower at 9,821.7 points. The ChiNext Index, which tracks China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, lost 1.08 percent to close at 2,075.51 points. Endi