Declining stock price Order for selling due to concerns over prolonged US-China trade friction Oct. 9 12:07

Tokyo stock market on the 9th, the stock price has dropped.

The Nikkei Stock Average, the closing price in the morning, was 21,442.98 yen, 144.80 yen lower than the closing price on the 8th.

TSE Stock Price Index = 1759.55, down 7.95.

The turnover in the morning was 493.32 million shares.

A market official said, “Many investors are wary of worsening relations between the United States and China because the US government has announced that it will restrict entry visas to some Chinese government officials because of human rights violations such as Uighurs. “We are selling orders mainly for semiconductor-related brands because of concerns over prolonged trade friction between the United States and China.”