By ELAINE KURTENBACHAP Business WriterBANGKOK (AP) — Shares were higher Monday in Europe and in Asia, where most markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher, to 15,058.49 while the CAC 40 in Paris also gained 0.1% to 7,002.30. The future for the S&P 500 lost less than 0.1% while the future for the Dow industrials was unchanged. Elsewhere in Asia, the S&P/ASX 200 in Sydney edged 0.1% higher, to 7,457.30. Technology and communication services stocks powered much of the gains as investors cheered another big quarterly surge in Netflix’s subscribers.
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