5 stories on Nikkei 225 from MarketRadar.
Japan's Nikkei dropped 1.3% on Friday, closing out a brutal 5% weekly loss, as Thursday's Wall Street tech rout spilled across Asia and investors pared bets on further Fed tightening.
Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 407.59 points, or 0.62%, to 64,916.70 on Monday — closing just 6.7 points above the closely watched 64,910 plateau after plunging as low as 63,831.78 intraday as semiconductor weakness returned.
South Korea's Kospi plunged as much as 6.5% and Japan's Nikkei 225 slid 3.1% on Thursday as hot US inflation data fueled bets on more Fed rate hikes and revived worries about funding for the AI buildout.
Asian equities slid Friday as doubts over OpenAI's revenue revived fears about AI spending, with the Nikkei falling over 1% and SoftBank down more than 5% after Wall Street's worst tech day in seven weeks.
Japan's Nikkei 225 fell about 1% to 69,339.80 on Thursday, sliding below the 69,400 mark as hawkish Fed minutes, Brent crude above $101, and a tech-led Wall Street retreat hit Asian markets.
