Asian shares mixed in scant New Year Eve trading

A man looks at an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo. Shares were mixed in Asia on Friday, Dec. 31, 2021 after a late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall Street, leaving the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slightly below record highs. - AP

BANGKOK, Dec 31 (AP): Shares were mixed in Asia on Friday after a late slide pulled major indexes into the red on Wall Street, leaving the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slightly below record highs.

Tokyo and many other regional markets were closed.