The Tokyo stock market on the 28th, stock prices fell.
▽The closing price of the Nikkei Stock Average is 26,340.50 yen, which is 107.37 yen lower than the 27th.
▽ Tokyo Stock Price Index = Topics fell 1.13 to 1909.02.
▽ The daily trading volume was 1,047,960,000 shares.
As the NASDAQ stock index, which has many IT-related stocks, dropped sharply in the New York market, sell orders spread to IT- and semiconductor-related stocks in the Tokyo market as well.
Although the Nikkei Stock Average fell by more than 200 yen at times, many investors were on holiday at the end of the year, and overall trading was sluggish.
It also released the main opinions that were debated at last week's monetary policy meeting when the Bank of Japan revised its monetary easing measures.
Investors were looking for clues as to whether the monetary easing line would continue for the time being, or whether they were headed for an exit, but there was no announcement that would be a major factor in trading.
Markets are likely to continue to worry about the actions of the Bank of Japan and central banks in Europe and the United States into the new year.