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Asian, European markets join global stock tumble
A rout in global equities deepened in Asia on Tuesday as inflation worries gripped financial markets, sending US stock futures sinking further into the red after Wall Street…
Nikkei closes at lowest year-end level since 1982
Japan's Nikkei closed 2011 at its lowest year-end level since 1982, and down 17.34% from 2010's closing figure. Japan's financial woes were worsened by the Fukushima disaster in…
Japan’s stock market still struggling despite gains
Japan’s stock market is struggling to build on recent gains as investors remain jittery over fears that the Japanese economy still faces major challenges in the aftermath of the…
Markets continue dive over nuclear disaster worries
The Nikkei plummeted more than 14 percent Tuesday as Japanese leaders tried to calm jittery markets. Investors fear the knock-on effects of the worsening nuclear crisis, as the…
Caught between shame and nostalgia, Tokyo recalls the 1980s 'bubble'
On December 29, 1989, Tokyo's stock market reached its historical peak. What followed was the end of an era of unequalled wealth and a slow economic slide. Japanese remember the…
Investors welcome opposition's landslide victory
The day after the historic victory of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan in general elections, the yen hit a seven-week high against the dollar and the Nikkei stock index…
Tokyo share prices slump 2.69 percent at close
Dragged down by heavy losses on Wall Street, Japanese share prices ended down 2.69 percent as the Nikkei-225 index fell 237.84 points.
European and Asian markets cheer US toxic asset programme
Asian stocks jumped to a two-month high, dragging European shares in their wake, as markets responded positively to US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to rid banks of…
Nikkei stock index surges 5.15 percent by close
Nikkei closed up 5.12%, buoyed by continuing gains on Wall Street, after the Nikkei slipped to 26-year lows last week. The Japanese government announced last month it is to…
Asia stocks down following Wall Street losses
Tokyo's main index, the Nikkei, fell around 3 % on Friday while the Topix reached a 25-year low. Asian markets were responding to lows on Wall Street after GM announced it may…
After a disastrous Monday, Wall Street refuses to bounce back
Wall Street limped to a lower finish Tuesday, although it saw less of a slide than in Europe, as investors mulled the extent of the economic gloom a day after a global rout that…
European stocks steady but struggle to make gains
After a small breeze of optimism at the opening, at midday European stocks were slightly in the red as they struggled to make some gains. Tokyo's Nikkei dropped by 1%, coming…