tokyo trading:  Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index, South Korea's Kospi and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 were closed, according to Market Watch.  Among individual stocks, Nissan 7201, 0.57%  sank in Tokyo trading after its vice chief operating officer  who had been tasked with the auto maker's recovery from scandal  said he will step down.  Japan's Nikkei NIK, -0.36%  slipped 0.2%, while the Shanghai Composite SHCOMP, -0.08%  was about flat and the smaller-cap Shenzhen Composite 399106, -0.67%  rose 0.4%. Taiwan's Taiex Y9999, 0.75%  was flat. E-commerce company Rakuten 4755, 1.01%  also declined.  The S&P 500 SPX, 0.51%  and Dow Jones Industrial DJIA, 0.37% finished with tiny losses. U.S. stocks closed mixed on Tuesday, with only the Nasdaq COMP, 0.78%  managing to post another record-high close.  
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