Month: February 2018

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index has plunged seven per cent following another day of heavy losses on Wall Street. The Nikkei lost 1,589.17 points, or 7.01 per cent, to trade at 21,092.91 by mid-afternoon on Monday. The Nikkei ended the morning ... ( read original story ...)

The Nikkei Index is yet one more equities index to fall into the risk trap that began last Friday, with inflation fears sparking traders to run for the hills, piling into safe havens like the Japanese Yen as global economic growth brings the risk of ... ( read original story ...)

Nikkei pares losses, still sheds almost 5% on the day ... sending major indexes sprawling and traders fleeing for safe haven currencies, much to the chagrin of Japanese central planners trying very hard to talk down the Japanese currency in recent days ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Nikkei 225 share benchmark falls 7.1 percent as Asia tracks Dow's worst day since 2011. ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday the fundamentals behind stock prices remained solid. He added that the Japanese, U.S. and European economies were in "very good shape." "The recovery (in these economies) is broadening across sectors ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell more than 1,200 points early on Tuesday, tracking steep losses seen overnight on Wall Street. On Tuesday, the Nikkei tumbled 5.43 percent, or 1,233.91 points, at 9:55 a.m. HK/SIN. The losses followed a massive U.S ... ( read original story ...)

The Nikkei index has extended its falls in midday trade after Japanese stocks slumped at the open. The declines follow a drop of 8% in Nikkei futures this morning, after US stocks had their largest one-day points fall in history. Stocks in Australia and ... ( read original story ...)

"Locations related to samurai, five-story pagodas, temples and Japanese gardens fit the image of Japan, and are thus popular," he said. The Nikkei asked 290 tourists from the U.S. and Australia, who stayed two weeks to list their top five destinations if ... ( read original story ...)

The Nikkei Asia300 Index of more than 300 regional companies was ... their stocks as the U.S. Treasury yield topped 2.7%," said an equity strategist based in Japan. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 665 points on Friday, the largest decline since ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei share average fell sharply on Monday as fear that US inflation may be finally gathering pace pound global equities, with investors dumping small-cap shares. The Nikkei tumbled 2.5 per cent to 22,682.08, its biggest one-day drop since ... ( read original story ...)

Japan bore the brunt of the declines, with Nikkei 225 Stock Average erasing this year’s gain, while a measure of its volatility surged to the highest since November. U.S. equity futures sank as much as 1.1 percent in Asia today but by 7:35 a.m. in London ... ( read original story ...)