* Asian stock markets mixed after Wall St ends flat
* U.S. Republicans pass $1.5 trln of debt-funded tax cuts
* Treasury sell-off takes 10-year yields to highest since March
* BOJ sticks with stimulus campaign, no sign of turning
* Dollar fails to benefit, euro firm before Catalonia vote
By Wayne Cole
SYDNEY, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Asian markets offered a muted reception on Thursday to the passage of U.S. tax cuts as benefits to company bottom lines were already baked into stock prices, while bonds were spooked by the blowout in government debt needed to fund the giveaways.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.06 percent in thin trade, while the Nikkei eased 0.1 percent.
South Korea was dragged down 1.4 percent by weakness in Samsung, but Indonesia rose after Fitch upgraded the country's credit rating.
Spreadbetters suggested European bourses would open a shade firmer while E-minis for the S&P 500 were flat.
In U.S. President Donald Trump's first major policy win, Republicans steamrolled opposition from Democrats to pass a bill that slashes taxes for corporations and the wealthy while giving mixed, temporary relief to middle-class Americans.
Having spent more than a year anticipating the bill, its actual passage proved something of an anticlimax for Wall Street. The Dow fell 0.11 percent, while the S&P 500 lost 0.08 percent and the Nasdaq 0.04 percent.
Most of the action was in bond markets where yields on U.S. 10-year notes jumped to the highest since March at 2.50 percent, in the process making a bearish break of a key chart level at 2.47 percent.
The swing higher in long-term yields, for once, outpaced the move in the short-end and steepened the yield curve a little.
Bond investors are concerned that adding fiscal stimulus at a time when the economy is already at full employment would only reinforce the Federal Reserve's determination to raise interest rates, thus pushing up short term yields.
At the same time, many assume the unfunded tax cuts will lead to an explosion in government borrowing, increasing the supply of new bonds and pressuring prices across the curve.
The impact is all the greater as the Fed has begun to unwind its massive bond holdings, as have central banks elsewhere.
Sweden's Riksbank on Wednesday took its first baby steps toward reversing ultra-loose policy by ending net new bond purchases.
"An appreciation that central banks are going to be buying fewer bonds next year at a time when many governments will be selling more of them, plus profit taking on the curve-flattening theme that has been a winning trade for large parts of 2017, are playing a part," said Ray Attrill, head of FX strategy at NAB.