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Japan's financial markets were closed Tuesday for a national holiday. Markets will reopen on Wednesday.
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Japan's Nikkei closed down 0.84 percent  on Monday after a weak U.S. jobs report kept the dollar near a  five-year low against the yen, helping reverse recent gains in  exporters such as Nissan Motor Co.
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Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 1.51  percent to a five-week closing low on Thursday as poor  machinery orders data followed sluggish growth figures that  undermined confidence in the economy a day earlier.
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Japan's main stock index fell Friday to a two-year low as investors worried about upcoming earning reports from U.S. financial groups.
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Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei average closed down 1.35 percent on Thursday after an unexpected fall in core machinery orders data worsened investors&#39; concern over Japan&#39;s economic outlook and triggered selling of a wide range of stocks.
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Japanese stocks fell Friday morning amid worries about a slowdown in the U.S. economy, Japan's biggest export market. Exporters and pharmaceutical firms led the decline.
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Asian stock markets closed mostly lower Tuesday on continued worries about the surge in global oil prices. Tokyo&#39;s benchmark Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues slipped 43.
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Tokyo shares end lower    TOKYO, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks closed lower on Tuesday, as the market still affected by a sharp decline in Japan' s machinery orders data released Monday.   The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 75.04 points, or 0.48 percent, to end at 15,719.34.
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The Nikkei share average fell 0.34 per cent by the close on Monday on selling of exporters, including Toyota Motor, which reported earnings after the market close, following a rise in the yen.
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Japanese stocks fell Friday as investors sold stocks to settle futures options, with many buyers remaining on the sidelines ahead of talks among the finance chiefs of the Group of Seven industrialized countries.
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At the end of August, Credit Suisse (NYSE:CSR) will close down its New  Japan fund following a period of disappointing returns. After 19 years of investment, the fund has halved in size to &pound;2m in the past year, and Credit Suisse says it does not expect any sudden improvement in performance. It puts this down, in part, to the inherent difficulty of investing in Japanese equities.
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The Nikkei average hit a one-month   closing low on Tuesday, losing 0.48 percent after a fall in   commodity prices stoked worries about global demand and hit   stocks sensitive to the economic cycle such as steel makers.
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Citigroup Inc., the world&#39;s largest bank, was forced to close its private banking operations in Japan after the nation&#39;s financial regulator reported it had found &quot;serious&quot; breaches.
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Japanese stocks closed down on Friday,  hit by sharp losses in Kyocera Corp. and KDDI Corp. after they  cut their earnings outlooks for the year, raising concerns over  a slowdown in corporate profit growth.
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The Nikkei average closed down 0.16  percent on Thursday as real estate shares and insurers fell,  offsetting gains in oil stocks, such as Nippon Oil Corp., that  benefited from a jump in crude oil prices.
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TOKYO : Japanese share prices closed 0.70 percent lower Monday amid uncertainty over the direction of global oil prices and after leading index figures suggested the domestic economy could be slowing, dealers said.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average ended down almost  one percent on Thursday after surprisingly weak machinery  orders data jolted investor confidence in Japan's economic  outlook and triggered selling across the board.