Japan stocks drop to 17-month low
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Japan's Nikkei stock index tumbles 4% to its lowest level in 17 months on worries over the strong yen and high oil prices.
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Japanese stocks plunged Friday on the first day of trading of 2008, closing more than 4 per cent lower at their weakest levels in a year and a half as a slumping dollar and fears of a US recession battered investor confidence.
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Japanese stocks declined by mid morning  on Thursday, led by exporters such as Canon Inc. after the  dollar's fall to its lowest in over a month against the yen  raised concerns about companies' revenue from overseas sales.
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The Japanese stock market fell sharply on Wednesday after several days of calm, responding to the worst day on Wall Street in three weeks overnight.
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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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Japanese stocks fell mildly on Tuesday morning, with exporters dropping because of a slight rise in the yen.
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The Japanese stock market fell on Wednesday morning, hit by an overnight fall in US stocks.
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Tokyo's Nikkei fell nearly 1 percent to a one-month low by Thursday afternoon as stocks like NEC Corp. dropped after disappointing earnings from U.S. companies fanned concern over profit trends and sent Wall Street lower.
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Japanese shares reversed opening gains to  fall 0.69 percent by midsession on Wednesday after early buying  of exporters, inspired by a rise on Wall Street after an  increase in U.S. interest rates, ran out of steam.
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Japan's Nikkei share average fell for a  second straight session on Tuesday, closing 0.99 percent lower  after the dollar's retreat below 103 yen put pressure on  exporters such as Sony Corp.
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Japanese prices fall for a seventh straight month making a rate rise by the end of the year less likely.
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The Nikkei average fell 1.78 percent on   Monday to its lowest close in two weeks as surprisingly weak   machinery orders data spurred selling of machinery shares such   as Fanuc Ltd. 6954.T.
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Japan's Nikkei average was down 0.19  percent by mid-morning on Tuesday, the first trading day of  2005, as investors grabbed profits in Mizuho Financial Group  and other major banks that had made strong gains late last  year.
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Japan's Nikkei average fell for a fifth  straight day to hit a one-month closing low on Wednesday as key  exporters and techs such as Kyocera Corp. extended losses on  renewed caution about the country's economic outlook.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average gave up 0.17  percent by the close on Thursday as techs such as Hitachi Ltd.  followed their U.S. rivals lower after investment bank Goldman  Sachs noted a slowdown in technology spending.
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s benchmark Nikkei stock index closed lower Monday for the seventh straight session to hit a six-week closing low amid lingering concerns about the impact of high crude oil prices on the global economy.
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The Nikkei share average was down 1  percent in early trading on Friday, with investors taking their  cue from the Dow Jones industrial average, which fell to its  lowest close in five weeks on concern about high oil prices.