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Bangkok • Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday after Wall Street slid and Hong Kong braced for bigger pro-democracy protests.

KEEPING SCORE: Germany's Dax index gained 0.2 percent to 9,490.72 while Britain's FTSE fell 0.4 percent at 6,622.72 and the CAC-40 in Paris shed 0.1 percent to 4,410.39. Wall Street looked set for little change after Tuesday's small loss, with futures for the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index steady in pre-market trading.

ASIA'S DAY: Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index shed 0.6 percent to 16,082.25 after a survey showed business conditions deteriorated. Shanghai and Hong Kong were closed for China's National Day holiday. Seoul's Kospi tumbled 1.4 percent to 1,991.54 on weaker factory output. India's Sensex fell 0.1 percent to 26,594.20. Sydney and Taipei gained while Singapore and Manila declined.

WALL STREET: Wall Street ended a stormy September with a loss for the month after low oil prices hurt energy stocks and Ford Motor Co. cut its profit forecast.

KOREA: Data showed August industrial production contracted by 3.8 percent from the previous month. That was driven by a 16 percent slide in output from the auto manufacturing industry.

HONG KONG: Pro-democracy demonstrators threatened to expand protests that closed streets in the business district in the biggest threat to Beijing's authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997. Some banks, schools and stores have closed, though analysts say they see no significant damage to the economy of this Asian financial center.

THE QUOTE: "The increased pressure from the U.S. slide will put increased pressure on the rest of the world," said IG Markets strategist Evan Lucas in a report. "The U.S. is the lead market — increased selling in the U.S. will lead to risk-off strategies in the rest of the world, particularly emerging markets."

JAPAN: The closely watched Tankan survey found conditions for non-manufacturing industries suffered their biggest decline since the second quarter of 2011. Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics said that suggested Japan's economic may have contracted again in the third quarter.

ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. oil added 34 cents to $91.51 per barrel in electronic trading in New York. The contract dropped $3.41 on Tuesday to $91.16, pushed down by plentiful supplies and a rise in the U.S. dollar — in which oil sales are priced — against other currencies. Brent crude, used to price international oils, gained 34 cents to $94.70.

CURRENCY: The dollar rose to 109.88 yen from Tuesday's 109.66 yen. The euro held steady at $1.26.