Japan stocks fall on option-led selling
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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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Japan&#39;s stock market was weighed down on Thursday morning by a combination of overnight drops in the US and European markets and a rise in the yen.
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Japanese stocks fell on Friday as a stronger yen hurt exporters and more problems emerged in the battered consumer lending industry.
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Japan's Nikkei hit a one-month low on  Wednesday as investors sold a broad range of shares, extending  losses from the day before when poor Japanese industrial output  data put a damper on the economy's outlook.
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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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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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Japanese stocks fell mildly on Tuesday morning, with exporters dropping because of a slight rise in the yen.
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Japanese stocks declined Friday morning, extending losses from the previous session as traders remained wary ahead of a statement from the Bank of Japan governor later in the day.
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Japanese stocks fell Thursday after financial shares came under pressure from a larger-than-expected loss at U.S. brokerage firm Merrill Lynch due to fallout from U.S. subprime mortgage problems. Exporters were also sold off on the yen's strength against the dollar.
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Tokyo stocks slipped on Thursday as  exporters such as Sony Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. succumbed  to dollar weakness against the yen, giving up some of the gains  made during in the previous three sessions.
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Japanese stocks fell Friday in thin trading as many investors chose to pare back positions ahead of U.S. jobs data due later in the day and continued wariness over the outlook for the global economy.
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Japanese stocks edged down Friday on profit-taking in the wake of the previous day's strong rally.
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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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Japan's Nikkei share average slipped 0.55 percent in early trade on Monday after a weak U.S. jobs report pushed the dollar down against the yen, hurting the shares of Japanese exporters.
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Tokyo stocks slipped on Thursday as  exporters such as Sony Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. succumbed  to the weakness of the dollar against the yen and gave up some  of their gains of the previous three sessions.
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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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Tokyo's Nikkei average reversed opening gains to fall 0.69 percent by midsession on Wednesday as early buying on exporters, inspired by gains on Wall Street after an increase in U.S. interest rates, ran out of steam.