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Fukoka Financial Plunge, Tokyo Stocks Down |
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Author: 123jump.com Staff
123jump.com
Last Update: 4:40 PM EDT April 08 2008
In Tokyo trading Nikkei 225 plummeted 1.49% or 199.8 at 13,250.43, and the broader Topix Index fell 1.8% or 22.94 at 1,282.69. Diet in Japan is expected to vote on the appointment of Masaaki Shirakawa as the BOJ governor. The post had been vacant for the first time in eighty years. Separately, private report showed that corporate bankruptcies rose 7.7% in fiscal 2007, for the second year in a row. |
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