Pedestrians reflected in a window stand in front of a quotation board displaying the numbers on the Tokyo Stock Exchange March 26, 2020. — AFP pic
TOKYO, March 30 — Tokyo stocks opened down more than three per cent today, as traders fret about the spreading coronavirus with a higher yen against the dollar also weighing on the market. The benchmark Nikkei 225 was down 3.26 per cent or 631.50 points at 18,757.93 in early trade, while the broader Topix index dropped 3.17 per cent or 46.30 points to 1,413.19.“Japanese shares are seen dominated by profit-taking sales following falls in US shares with the trend of a higher yen,” Okasan Online Securities chief strategist Yoshihiro Ito said in a commentary.
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