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Next Lesser Element in Prices

You are given a list of stock prices and need to find the next lesser stock price for each price in the list. If there is no lesser price, output -1 for that price. The input is a single line of space-separated integers representing the stock prices. Example: Input: 5 2 3 1 4 Output: 2 -1 1 -1 -1

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