Stock price closing price 19,968.76 yen Price drop over 1000 yen March 15:28 on March 9
On the 9th, the Tokyo Stock Market fell on the whole, and the Nikkei Stock Average closed at 10,969.876 yen, down 10,050.99 yen from the end of last week, and the record price fell. The Nikkei 225 closing price has fallen below 20,000 yen for the first time in about one year and two months since last January.
In addition, the Nikkei Stock Average will fall below 1,000 yen at the closing price for the first time since December.
On the other hand, the TSE Stock Index = Topics fell 82.49 to 1388.97. Topics have dropped below 1400 for the first time in three years and four months since November 2016.
The sharp drop in stock prices was due to growing concern that the spread of the new coronavirus would seriously impact the global economy.
In the foreign exchange market, the movement to sell dollars and buy yen has accelerated, and the yen's appreciation and the weakening of the dollar to ¥ 1 = 101 yen level for the first time in about three years and four months has spurred sell orders. .