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Monday was a dark day for stock market investors worldwide. The pain started in Asia, where Japan’s Nikkei 225 cratered more than 12% in its worst day since 1987, while South Korea’s KOSPI ...
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 ...
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).
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 ...
At the same time, since the economy was driven by its high rate of reinvestment, the crash hit the stock market particularly hard. The Nikkei 225 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange plunged from a height of 38,915 at the end of December 1989 to 14,309 at the end of August 1992. [38] By 11 March 2003, it plunged to the post-bubble low of 7,862. [38]
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 ...
On October 8, the Indonesian stock market halted trading, after a 10% drop in one day. The Times of London reported that the meltdown was being called the Crash of 2008, and older traders were comparing it with Black Monday in 1987. The fall that week of 21% compared to a 28.3% fall 21 years earlier, but some traders were saying it was worse.
Japanese stocks followed Wall Street lower on Friday and were set for a weekly decline, as investors continued to worry about a global economic slowdown amid rising interest rates. U.S. futures ...