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International stocks trading in New York closed lower on Friday, as the S&P/BNY Mellon index of American depositary receipts declined 0.3% to 152.02.

The European index was flat at 149.74. The Asian index lost 1.0% to 171.07. The Latin American index rose 0.7% to 196.82, while the emerging-markets index fell 1.1% to 284.22.

Voxeljet AG, based in Germany, posted the largest decline cratering 24% to $1.15, followed by shares of China's Meta Data Ltd, which plunged 19% to 99 cents. Shares of China-based Lixiang Education Holding Co. Ltd. tumbled 17% to 38 cents.

Belite Bio Inc., based in the U.S., was up most surging 19.0% to $31.30, and Hong Kong-based Yunji Inc. rose 14% to $1.04. SYLA Technologies Co. Ltd., which is based in Japan, rounded out the top three with shares up 10% to $6.94.


Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.


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08-18-23 1824ET