SYDNEY, July 9 (Reuters) - Australian shares are set for a rocky start on Thursday with investors likely to remain cautious a day after Chinese equities tumbled to four-month lows on panic selling, unsettling investors already fretting about Greece's debt crisis.
Indicating a soft open, share price index futures YAPcm1 fell 0.6 percent to 5,370.0, a 99.5-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO . The benchmark index slid 2.0 percent on Wednesday.
New Zealand's NZX 50 index .NZ50 fell 0.7 percent, or 41.1 points, to 5,726.6 in early trade.
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