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Foreign brokers place net Japan stock sell orders

Sun Aug 3, 2008 7:25pm EDT

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TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Orders for Japanese stocks placed through 13 foreign securities houses before the start of trade on Monday showed an intention to sell a net 13.5 million shares, market sources said.

There were sell orders for 34.2 million shares and buy orders for 20.7 million, they said. (Reporting by Taiga Uranaka)

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