1. The Nikkei index rose 710 points to 14894.

2. The Nikkei hits a new high of 55,500.

3. The Nikkei average experienced a gain of 140.19 points on Friday.

4. Last week the Nikkei 225, the best-known market indicator, dropped to a 27-month low.

5. The benchmark Nikkei average tumbled 169 points, or 0. 9 percent, to 20, 197.

6. In Tokyo Wednesday, the Nikkei index fell 70. 86 points to close the morning session at 20581. 22.

7. The Nikkei 300 index rose 0. 16 point, or 0. 05 percent, to 300. 89.

8. The Nikkei fell 4. 98 points Friday to 19868. 15 after a 138. 63-point fall Thursday.

9. On Monday, the Nikkei index fell 60. 40 points to close the morning session at 20608. 63.

10. The Nikkei 225-stock index has spent most of the past two years bouncing between 14000 and 20000.

11. The 225-share Nikkei index, meanwhile, continued its recent slide, closing down 122 points at 17, 358. 16.

12. The Nikkei 300 index fell 0. 45, or 0. 15 percent, to 297. 38.

13. The benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed the session 201.88 points down, or 1.51 percent, at 12,681.66.

14. Worse, the recent fall in the Nikkei is eroding their capital base.

15. The Nikkei index has fallen by 60 percent from its peak, and is now testing the 17(),000 level.

16. The Nikkei index rose 1,252.51 points, to close at 17,850.66, recording the fifth largest single-day gain on record.

17. The Nikkei hits a new high of 55,500. Happy New Year.

18. At current Nikkei levels, analysts believe most banks already have implicit losses on these equity portfolios.

19. The Nikkei 225 average rose 158.49 or 1.2 per cent to 13,506.23 after trading in a narrow range between 13,441.52 and 13,573.55.

20. Nikkei Index hit in intraday low of 26 years.

21. It confirmed an earlier report by Japan's Nikkei newspaper.

22. Japan's Nikkei stock index reacted positively to Thursday's moves.

23. The Nikkei Index in Japan closed more than 2.5 % down.

24. In Japan, Nikkei index dropped about 3 percent, with markets in Australia and South Korea also lower.

25. When the volatile Nikkei stock index plunged 3.9 % last Monday.

26. The Nikkei fell 1.8 percent by the midsession, dragged lower by exporters like Honda Motor as the stronger yen promised to erode their profits.

27. Banking shares are also a key sector of the market, and any rally among them would push up the Nikkei significantly.

28. Even before the securities houses announced their decision, the advantages of issuing new equity had slumped along with the Nikkei.

29. Then, as the yen weakened again to 104. 2 in mid-September, the Nikkei bounced back to 18474. 38.

30. the world's second-largest steelmaker, climbed 3 percent to 508 yen after the Nikkei business daily reported it planned to spend 500 billion to 600 billion yen to build a steel factory in Brazil.

31. Global stock markets climbed Monday are strong, the Japanese Nikkei Index rose, leading financial stocks.

32. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell three percent, while Japan's Nikkei lost more than two-and-a-half percent.

33. The correlation between the 10 year T-Bond interest rate and the Nikkei 225 Japanese stock index is unmistakeable since 1990, but less than good before 1990.

34. European shares .FTEU3 ended up 1.7 percent on Friday and Japan's Nikkei index .N225 hit a six-month closing high.

35. It had only about 0.3 percent of the Japanese market last business year, according to the Nikkei newspaper.

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36. The expected loss this business year would be only the second since Sony went public in 1958 and the first caused by troubles in its mainstay electronics business, the Nikkei said.

37. Japan's benchmark Nikkei index trimmed earlier gains but still closed up nearly two percent.

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

39. Japan's benchmark index, the Nikkei, closed off one-and-two-thirds a percent after steep losses earlier in the day.

40. Japan Nikkei index closed down more than 6 % at a 26 - year - low of 7162.9.

41. Large constituents in the Nikkei that dipped in the previous session recovered on Tuesday.

42. Government bond futures rose and the Nikkei. N 225 edged up after the central bank announcement.

43. Nikkei index was off nearly 10 % at the close, the biggest one - day loss since 1987.

44. Japanese stock market's Nikkei index today shed 295.9 or 2.8 % to close at 10 , 202.36.

45. The Nikkei "looks overbought in the short-term," said Hiroichi Nishi, general manager of equities at SMBC Nikko Securities.

46. The three-week rally took the Nikkei back to the 50% retracement resistance.

47. Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.8%, Australia's ASX 200 shed 2.8%, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 4.4%.

48. Japan's benchmark index, the Nikkei, dropped 166 points, closing off nearly 1.9 percent. Analysts say the yen's rise against the euro also influenced selling in Tokyo.

49. The broader Nikkei average is down about 5 percent in the same period.

50. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Average gained 0.1 per cent to 11,292.83 with financials powering ahead after heavy buying in banks during the previous session on Wall Street.

51. Bearishness was clearly the dominate trend across asset classes as regional equities weakened with Nikkei down -1.85%, Hang Seng falling -2.72%.

52. Fears of a wider-ranging debt default affecting other banks drove Japan's Nikkei index down two percent.

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

54. OSE shares dropped 1.2 percent to 417,500 yen on Tuesday morning, underperforming a 0.4 percent decline for the Nikkei stock average .N225.

55. Asian stocks ended lower Tuesday, with Nikkei index losing 1.6 %.

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

58. Toyota is trying to compete with South Korean and Chinese cars by reducing procurement costs by up to 30 percent, Chief Financial Officer Satoshi Ozawa told Nikkei in an interview.

59. Japan's Nikkei 225 jumped 2.9 percent after that country's central bank outlined details of its own program to stimulate its economy by buying up debt securities.

60. Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 swung between gains and losses before closing fractionally lower at 8, 700.29.

61. The Nikkei said Toyota would cut capacity to 9 million cars in a bid to return to an operating profit in fiscal 2010, but the source said decisions had not been taken on such deep cuts.

62. But profit-taking eroded earlier gains amid active trade in what analysts said was a natural reaction to rises that have seen the Nikkei climb more than 3 percent in the last week.

63. The Tokyo market controls more than 90 percent of cash equity trading while Osaka, located in the economic center of western Japan, draws the top volumes in Nikkei index futures and other derivatives.

64. For Japanese equity investors, it has not just been a lost decade, it has been a lost quarter-century; the Nikkei 225 average recently touched a 26-year low.

65. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average ended fractionally lower at 8700.29, bringing the quarter's losses to 11%.

66. Japan's Nikkei index picked up six-tenths of a percent on the day.

67. The Nikkei average jumped almost three percent on the news, with shares of large exporters Sony, Kyocera and Toyota rising.

68. Nikkei 225 share index is now nearly two - thirds below its 1989 peak.http://

69. Most Asian stock markets closed higher, despite the consolidation after the Nikkei Index fell 0.4 %.

70. 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%.

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

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

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