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In addition, the report from Nikkei Business Daily said the Bank of Japan is considering additional steps to ease monetary policy.

The Nikkei index may rise to 10250 by year-end, and at least to 13000 by next year, outperforming the U. S. market, he said.

"Why did it take two months to get to this point? " the Nikkei newspaper asked in an editorial on Wednesday.

Although the Bank of Japan stayed out of the rate cutting, the mood was gloomy as Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index closed down 9. 4%.

Of those polled by the Nikkei, 63 per cent said they did not support the Fukuda cabinet because he lacked leadership.

That said, there have been at least a dozen significant rallies in the Nikkei on its overall way down.

"Japanese stocks are not cheap any more, with the Nikkei average standing at 16 times earnings, " he said.

To be fair, the Nikkei almost got there at twice the clip as the Dow before bouncing like a samurai's severed head.

The Nikkei 225 average, Tokyo's best-known stockmarket measure, is still only a quarter of its peak, reached at the end of 1989.

Interventions continued for several years, but more than a decade later the Nikkei average is only worth a third of its value in 1989.

Nikkei on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell yesterday to a new 20-year low on concerns over the impact of a possible US attack on Iraq.

The Nikkei share average opened down 0. 7 percent a few minutes after the data and continued to fall.

The exception was Japan's Nikkei 225 index . N225, which is still in a bear market trend, he said.

"It brought home the fact that the yen is not used in this way by others, " notes Yasuo Ota, an editorial writer for Nikkei.

Under the plan, Chuo Mitsui will transform into a new holding company tentatively named Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc, the Nikkei said.

Before his speech, stocks rebounded in Tokyo, where Japan's key Nikkei index closed more than two-and-a-half percent higher.

Stockmarkets in Asia rebounded today as investors welcomed the BoA bail-out, with Japan's Nikkei climbing 2. 6%.

China's bourses are now more valuable than Japan's, where the Nikkei 225 index is at about a quarter of its 1989 peak.

Japan's Nikkei Index closed less than one percent higher Friday. Most Asian stock markets are closed through Monday for holiday.

Nikkei says that Toyota will evaluate its production system to further cut losses in an effort to further streamline its operations.

Analysts say concerns, in particular, about Europe's economy helped drive the benchmark Nikkei to its lowest level since March of 2009.

The Nikkei 225 index is the benchmark index for equity prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Like the Dow Jones . . .

But it was a false dawn. The Nikkei is now under half its end-1999 level.

Japan's Nikkei stock index sank almost five percent, to its lowest point in more than three years.

Other markets: In global trading, most Asian markets slumped with the exception of the Japanese Nikkei. European markets ended lower.

Qualcomm has about 80 percent of the market for such semiconductors, known as baseband chips, the Nikkei said.

The buzz for the so-called 'eco-point' scheme was so pervasive that Japanese business daily Nikkei named it one of the top trends of 2010.

The news sent stock prices soaring on Japan's key Nikkei index, which gained two-and-one-quarter percent by the closing bell.

However, uncertainty over the government's handling of the economy sent the benchmark Nikkei index to a four-month low.

The Nikkei, Japan's main stock index, promptly collapsed, plunging 14% before recovering a bit and ending the day down 11%.

It had only about 0. 3 percent of the Japanese market last business year, according to the Nikkei newspaper.

Despite a recovery of sorts, the Nikkei is still 7% below its starting-point for the year.

Japan's Nikkei stock average was hit especially hard by the rising value of the yen, which will hurt the exporting sector.

Quoting the Nikkei business daily, business blogs are reporting today that Hitachi hopes to use the motors for hybrid car manufacturing.

The report, which originates with the sometimes-shaky Nikkei seems firm on the numbers, with a 500 billion yen loss ($5 billion) expected.

The Nikkei, Japan's top business newspaper, reported recently that Sony set up a team to develop a PSP with cell-phone features.

Yet the Nikkei 225, the Japanese equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, has sat out the ETF boom, thanks to licensing disputes.

Japanese investment in Russia totalled just over $1bn in 2003, up 130 per cent from a year earlier, according to the Nikkei newspaper.

But once the Nikkei 225 hit 38, 916 points 20 years ago this week, life began to leach out of the Japanese economy.

Japan's biggest earthquake on record struck just before the Tokyo Stock market closed, sending the Nikkei to a five week low.

It was the Nikkei's biggest single-day gain in history.

The plan asks that Tepco make no dividend payments to shareholders until compensation payments are complete, the Nikkei said.

If the benchmark Nikkei share average rises, the yen was likely to head lower, currency traders said.

Not surprisingly, the Nikkei 225 stock index more than tripled in less than five years, companies blossomed and the use of debt skyrocketed.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed more than two percent Wednesday, after losing more than nine percent in two days.

is planning to sell its loss-making South Korean soft drink unit Haitai Beverage, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday.

Japan urged China to make ample supplies of rare earths available, Nikkei English News reported earlier today.

The US equity markets continued to rally, with the S&P 500 up 4. 7% and Asian regional stock indexes are following with Nikkei up 3. 39%.

The Nikkei benchmark index has lost more than 41% this year and the yen last week rose to a 13-year high against the dollar.

It was the biggest one-day loss for the Nikkei since 1987.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei average lost just half a percent, after plunging nine percent a day earlier.

The Nikkei Stock Average trimmed earlier losses immediately after the news.

Japan's business newspaper, Nikkei, predicts that the loss might exceed 500 billion yen for this coming year.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei closed at its lowest level in five months, after falling nearly 3. 75 of a percent in the latest session.

Shares on the Tokyo stock exchange plummeted 13%. The leading Nikkei index had already fallen by 7% on Monday.

The Tokyo market was closed yesterday, although the Nikkei 225 Average ended Tuesday's session at a three-month peak.

While Tokyo's Nikkei ended slightly down at -0. 2 per cent, most other markets around the world closed marginally higher.

The Yen slowly declining in morning trading hours as the Nikkei rises.

And in September, in unison with other key markets around the world, the Nikkei 225 plunged 13. 9% as the credit crisis intensified.

Yen worries have pushed the Nikkei Stock Average into bear market territory in recent weeks.

Japan's Nikkei stock average is likely to edge higher on Thursday, breaking above the psychologically important 10, 000 level .

The Nikkei 225, the leading index of the Japanese stock market, also surged on the news.

The move initially boosted the Nikkei stock average by 200 points before fears about corporate earnings hit sentiment.

At least that is the conclusion of a study published by the Nikkei Research Institute of Industry & Regional Economy.

A opinion poll shows that almost 70 per cent of those surveyed by the Nikkei Business Daily found the government's response unacceptable.

Over the past 12 months, the Nikkei has not moved, while government bonds have shown a tiny rise.

In real terms, the value of the Nikkei stock market index is a quarter of what it was two decades ago.

Minutes after the announcement, the Nikkei stock index shot up 100 points and the yen weakened against the dollar.

The Nikkei June contract in the futures market plunged immediately after Mr.

At the height of the panic in mid-August the Nikkei 225 index fell by 9% in a single week, dipping 16% below its July peak.

Last week, the Nikkei Stock Average climbed above 10000, capping a 14% climb since the end of August to close Friday at 10022. 39.

And Japan rarely shies away from financial socialism when the Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunges.

The Tokyo stock market has seen the benchmark Nikkei average plunge more than 20 per cent since July.

Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0. 2 percent, getting the global trading day off to a sluggish start.

More than half of Japanese want neither for their next prime minister, according to an opinion poll commissioned by Nikkei, a newspaper.

Asian markets were up with the Nikkei 225 up nearly 0. 89% and European bourses are up across the board by about 1% currently.

After another day of dramatic trading in Asia, Japan's Nikkei index closed almost 8% higher.

"Yen appreciation is alsocausing the Nikkei [stock index] plunge, " he says.

In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index lost nearly 5 percent of value as commodities followed oil prices lower.

Tokyo's Nikkei shares index climbed more than 3 per cent ahead of the BoJ announcement, but fell back to close up 1. 8 per cent.

Annualized returns from this strategy: 12% a year, even while the Nikkei plunged from 39000 to about 7200.

Japan's stockmarket ended the week in disarray: the Nikkei 225-share index fell by 24% on the week, twice the weekly fall of the 1987 crash.

In Asia Friday morning, Tokyo's Nikkei Stock Average was down 11% in early trading and other markets were also down.

Early Thursday in Asia, Tokyo stocks opened sharply higher, with the Nikkei Stock Average rising 1. 7%.

Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported that Hon Hai would pay Y100bn ($1. 2bn) for a controlling stake.

The news encouraged investors, and Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index rose a sharp 2. 7 percent.

The haemorrhaging in equities has been even greater, with the Nikkei still below its 1989 peak.

He hoped that Nikkei Inc. will play a positive role in this regard.

Those who have taken the plunge have suffered; even after the recent rally, the Nikkei 225 Stock Average has fallen by 7% this year.

Equities roared; only eight stocks on the Nikkei 225 fell for the day.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average index is down nearly 13% this week.

The Nikkei stock index is down 80% from its 1989 peak. Property prices fell more than 80%.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei Stock Average opened 1. 4% lower, following drops in Australia and New Zealand.

Shanghai shares . SSEC pared losses to 0. 8 percent after earlier falling nearly 2 percent, putting the Nikkei under additional pressure.

The Nikkei has stagnated for 20 years as companies accept sub-par returns.

The Nikkei rose after Obama's statement.

Dollar-denominated Nikkei futures fell 4. 9 percent and are down more than 10 percent for the year.

Its reserves managers could acquire the entire Nikkei 225, with $30bn in change.

The Nikkei is also climbing mostly upwards.

The Nikkei stock index rose 4. 4% on Tuesday, an uptick that's been linked to Buffett's comments.

The Nikkei 225 share index rose more than 2 per cent as investors bought shares in exporters.

The Nikkei has lost half its value this year.

The Nikkei 225 from 1995 to 2001 looks very like the S& P 500's double-bubble experience starting 10 years later.

Tokyo's Nikkei index closed down more than 10 percent, following a 6 percent drop on Monday.

The Nikkei fell by nearly a quarter last.

The Nikkei Stock Average rose Tuesday by 1. 5%, its biggest gain in about three weeks.

These are the main reasons, said economists, why the Nikkei index in Tokyo rose 1. 5%, its ninth consecutive day of gains.

Markets in Asia fell Tuesday morning, with the Nikkei average down 1. 4%.

Currently, Asian regional indexes are higher, with Nikkei up 6. 28%.

On the first trading day of2009, buyers lifted the Nikkei to above the 9000 level for the first time in two months.

The Nikkei 225 stock average fell 1. 7 percent in Tokyo, where Prime Minister Naoto Kan won a no-confidence vote in Parliament.

Still, the Nikkei's 5. 2% gain in the first quarter doesn't look too shabby compared with the losses seen in Chinese indexes.

The Nikkei also speculates the Fit Hybrid will retail from about $15, 800.

Asian stocks ended lower Tuesday, with Tokyo's Nikkei index losing 1. 6%.

The Nikkei stock index was down 2% one month later.

Japan's stock market shrugged off the gloomy figures, with the benchmark Nikkei average rising 2. 7 per cent to close at 7, 461. 22.

According to Japan's Nikkei business daily, Honda will launch the Fit Hybrid in the fall of 2010.

Elsewhere overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0. 33 percent.

This week, a poll by the Nikkei newspaper saw the government's approval rating fall to 19%, abjectly low.

This has helped push the Nikkei 225 share index up by around 40% since March, when it hit a 26-year-low.

In Tokyo the Nikkei index fell by almost 11% in one day.

In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average, was less affected, falling about 0. 62 percent.

Asian equity markets are in mixed with the Nikkei trading down 0. 05% whilst the Hang Seng is higher at 0. 45%.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 3 per cent this year but rose 10. 6 per cent in dollar terms as the yen rallied sharply.

The Hang Seng Index fluctuated violently and Nikkei Index fell to a record low for the year.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Average inched up just 0. 2 per cent, but did set a fresh six-month closing high.

When the volatile Nikkei stock index plunged 3. 9% last Monday.

The Nikkei 225 closed 3. 2% lower, with Japan's biggest banks leading the fallers.

Nintendo's price-book ratio is 2. 6, twice as high as an average of 1. 3 for the 225 companies in the Nikkei index.

During that period, the Nikkei rose 18% while the Shanghai Composite shed 10%.

The Nikkei 225 index halved from its peak above 36, 000.

The Nikkei 225 fell 2. 3% on Wednesday as thin volumes exacerbated moves.

Overnight the Japanese Nikkei fell by 1. 6%.

The Nikkei had the highest spike, to 67%.

Shares of Toray jumped 2 percent to 555 yen on the news, outperforming a 2. 8 percent fall in the benchmark Nikkei average . N225.

At its high in the 1990s, Japan's Nikkei 225 ( $N225) traded at only five times book value.

Japan's Nikkei stock average jumped 2. 7 percent.

In Japan, meanwhile, a lot of the Nikkei's . N225 underperformance has to do with exporters struggling with a strong yen.

The Nikkei 225 index, the most prominent measure of stocks traded in Tokyo, dropped 131 points, or 1. 4%.

Around 30% of Japan's 3, 820 public companies are expected to post losses for 2008, according to Nikkei, a financial-news service.

The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 companies, having surpassed 37000 in 1990, now hovers at about 8845.

Asian stock markets, the Nikkei 225 index closed down 1. 4%.

The Hang Seng climbed 1. 9%, helped by property sales data, and automakers helped the Nikkei 225 rise 0. 2% in Tokyo.

Meanwhile, the Nikkei 225 Average has risen 5. 47 per cent this year.

Japan's Nikkei index closed down more than 6% at a 26-year-low of 7162. 9.

Japan's Nikkei Stock Average of 225 companies, which is down 49% from its 2007 high, ranks 65th.

The Nikkei is -0. 7%, Hang Seng -1. 2% and Shanghai Composite flat on the day.

On June 15, the Nikkei index closed at 75% below its 1989 peak.

If we look at Japan following the Nikkei bust in 1989, we can see that volatility increased.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index fell more than 3. 5%, hitting a fresh 16-month low.

Japan's Nikkei index fell by 1. 6 percent.

Japan's Nikkei Stock Average of 225 companies fell 42. 1%, and Taiwan's Weighted Index dropped 46. 0%.

Tokyo's Nikkei index closed down 202 points, or 2. 2%.

That was in the 1980s, when the economy was growing rapidly and the Nikkei was heading to 40, 000.

In Japan, the recovery was more muted, with the Nikkei closing just 0. 8% higher after two days of heavy losses.

The Nikkei average . N225 was down 0. 2 percent.

the Nikkei Index fell to a record low for the year.

Last fiscal, Toyota posted a parent-only operating loss of 480. 9 billion yen, according to the Nikkei.

The solid performance was widely predicted but helped push the Nikkei 225 average up 0. 75 per cent to 17, 292.

The stock market gained moderately yesterday, with the Nikkei rising 0. 4 per cent to 15, 571. 62.

Exacerbating the 3. 7% drop in shares on Friday, the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average opened down 1. 4% at 9169. 67 .

Tokyo's Nikkei Index dropped 881 points, more than 9. 5 percent, finishing Friday at 8, 276.

The Nikkei average yesterday closed near a 26-year low at 7, 229. 72.

In the first 15 minutes of trading, Japan's benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell 185. 14 points, or 2. 07%, from Thursday.

The Nikkei 225 Average fell 2. 2 per cent to end below 17, 000 at a four-month low.

In the first 15 minutes of trading, Japan's benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell 185. 14 points, or 2. 07 percent, from Thursday.

Japan's Nikkei average finished the day down 5. 3 percent, while the KOSPI index in Seoul lost 3. 2 percent.

Since then, the Nikkei has gained 7. 1% versus a 6. 4% drop in China's Shanghai Composite Index as of last Friday's close.

The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 companies rose 1. 4% to 11244. 40, and has now rallied 6. 6% for the year to an 18-month high.

Measured by the Nikkei 225 share index, Japanese shares are 27% below last year's July high: deep bear-market territory.

JAL shares closed Thursday up 2. 7 percent at 115 yen, outperforming a 1. 8 percent fall in the Nikkei average . N225.

The main share price index in Japan, the Nikkei, reached its highest levels since before the international banking crisis.

Disliked it was. While the Dow Jones Asia Pacific Stock Index jumped roughly 32% last year, Japan's Nikkei could only muster a 19% gain.

The Nikkei has fallen by 1. 5% to 8, 804.

Japan's Nikkei index closed two percent lower, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong plummeted nearly five percent at the closing bell.

The Nikkei average has soared 38 per cent in the three months since March 10, when it hit a 26-year low of 7, 054. 98.

The benchmark Nikkei . N225 ended 151. 61 points higher at 9, 944. 55, its highest close since June 30.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Average was down 3. 4 per cent to 13, 504. 51, its lowest close since October 2005.

Tokyo's Nikkei index lost two percent, and in Hong Kong the Hang Seng fell nearly three percent.

Overnight, Asian markets put in stronger performances, with the Nikkei index in Japan rising by 2 per cent.

Sales of adult diapers will outnumber those for babies in Japan late this year or in 2010, Nikkei reported.

Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 161. 41, or 1. 23 percent to 12, 933. 1.

In Japan, the Nikkei share index fell by more than 5% Thursday, as did HongKong's Hang Seng.

The Nikkei 225 stock average rose 2. 3 percent to close at 9, 516. 56 after losing as much as 1. 1 percent earlier.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei index gained 100 points, or more than one percent, but Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped almost five percent .

Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 9. 62 points, or 0. 1%, to 8, 716. 72 in early afternoon trading.

The Shanghai Composite, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong and Japan's Nikkei all gained about 1. 1%.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell almost as much and Japan's Nikkei also slumped by more than 6. 5 percent.

In Japan, the Nikkei Index was down by almost 3% in midafternoon.

In Japan, industrial orders for July that were sharply weaker than forecast helped push the Nikkei 225 average down by 2. 7 per cent.

The Nikkei, Japan's business daily newspaper, reminds its readers that wages in Japan are ten times higher than in China.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng and Japan's Nikkei index each rose by 1 percent or more.

In Asia - Tokyo's Nikkei was up nearly 3 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed more than 4 percent higher.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index tumbled 4% and Japan's Nikkei Index also fell nearly 4%.

In Japan, the Nikkei index finished 207 points lower, some 2. 1 percent.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index was 2. 1 percent lower by early afternoon.

The Nikkei index in Japan fell 2. 7 percent.

Asian stockmarkets rose overnight, with Tokyo's Nikkei closing up 1. 1% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng ending 2. 07% higher.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 stocks average jumped more than 5% after Wen's remarks, gaining 371 points to 7, 569.

The Nikkei 225 index in Japan was up 2. 43% in Tokyo.

The Nikkei 225 Average in Japan ended the week down5. 34 per cent and the Shanghai Composite index fell 5. 57 per cent.

Tokyo, Japan: A visitor takes pictures of the Nikkei Index and other stock figures at the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Nikkei Global Environment and Business Leaders'Summit

In Japan, the Nikkei Dow hit a high of 39, 957. 44 on December 29th 1989.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Average fell 2. 6 per cent, Hong Kong shed 3 per cent and Australian stocks fell 3. 4 per cent.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 1. 25% to 22572 and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 Average rose 0. 5% to 10098, despite a stronger yen.

The Nikkei 225 Average rose 1. 4 per cent, while Hong Kong climbed 2. 3 per cent.

In Japan, the Nikkei share index fell by more than five percent Thursday, as did while Hong Kong's Hang Seng.

Weak Asia Stocks Limit Nikkei's Growth

Due to a public holiday in Japan, the Nikkei was closed today;