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Japan's Nikkei 225 index tumbles 4.6%, hit by losses for technology shares and expected impacts of a strong yen.
The Nikkei 225 was up 1.5% at 38,718.00. It has been hovering just below the record high of 38,957 that it set in late 1989 right before its asset price bubble imploded.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 helped start Monday by plunging 12.4% for its worst day since the Black Monday crash of 1987. ... South Korea’s Kospi index careened 8.8% lower, stock markets across Europe ...
The Nikkei 225 Futures, introduced at Singapore Exchange (SGX) in 1986, the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) in 1988, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in 1990, is now an internationally recognized futures index. [7] The Nikkei average has deviated sharply from the textbook model of stock averages, which grow at a steady exponential rate.
On January 17, 2006, the Nikkei 225 fell 2.8%, its fastest drop in nine months, as investors sold stocks across the board in the wake of a raid by prosecutors on internet company livedoor. The Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended trading 20 minutes before the close on January 18 due to the trade volume threatening to exceed the exchange's computer ...
Osaka Dōjima Rice Exchange Statue of Godai Tomoatsu in front of the Osaka Securities Exchange. The birthplace for futures transactions: Dōjima Rice Exchange (堂島米会所 The origin of securities exchanges stems from the Edo period, when an exchange for rice and crops was established in Osaka, which at the time was the economic center of Japan.
The country's benchmark Nikkei 225 index finished 1.2% higher after a Bank of Japan official suggested the central bank would refrain from raising interest rates while markets are unstable.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 share index surges 10.2%, regaining most of its losses from Monday's tumble a day earlier.