Participants conduct a traditional handclap at the end of the ceremony to wrap up the year's trading at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost nearly a fifth of its value over the past year. It nose-dived right after the March 11 tsunami and earthquake disaster, recouped some of those losses in July, but then started a decline that has the benchmark hovering at below the March value. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP – Stock markets around the world were seeing out 2011 fairly positively Friday, but most posted big declines for the year in the wake of Europe’s debt crisis, a faltering U.S. economy and signs that China’s economy is no longer sizzling.


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