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Asian stocks tumbled Friday, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 3.5% on heavy selling of semiconductor-related shares and other market heavyweights. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 plunged 3.51% to ...
Japan’s Nikkei 225 slumped 4.8% on worries the country’s incoming prime minister will support higher interest rates and other policies that investors see as less market-friendly. Shigeru ...
Japan's Nikkei share average shed 0.91% at the open and was down 0.82% by the end of the morning session at 28,984.56. The losses erased most of the gains made the previous day, when the Nikkei ...
Nikkei 225 Index. The Nikkei 225, or the Nikkei Stock Average (Japanese: 日経平均株価, Hepburn: Nikkei heikin kabuka), more commonly called the Nikkei or the Nikkei index [1] [2] (/ ˈ n ɪ k eɪ, ˈ n iː-, n ɪ ˈ k eɪ /), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
The Nikkei index shed 4,451.28 to 31,458.42. It suffered an 11.4% drop in October 2008 during the global financial crisis and fell 10.6% during the aftermath of massive earthquakes and nuclear ...
As lending costs increased drastically, coupled with a major slowdown in land prices in Tokyo, the stock market began to fall sharply in early 1990. The Nikkei 225 slid from an opening of 38,921 (January 4, 1990) to a yearly low of 21,902 (December 5, 1990), [12] which resulted in a loss of more than 43% within a year. Stock prices had ...
In stock markets abroad, Japan’s Nikkei 225 added 0.5% and topped the 40,000 level for the first time. Elsewhere in Asia, the spotlight this week is on China’s National People’s Congress ...
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index tumbles more than 12% as world markets are jolted by weak US jobs reports.