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<Asian Mkt>Nikkei Crashes Under 37,000; Cratering 1,260 pts/3.3% at Midday; USD/JPY Reaches 153.64
Risk aversion sentiment grew as the Middle Eastern geopolitical situation worsened, while expectations for US interest rate cuts strongly cooled down. USD/JPY reached 153.64. Nikke...
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<Asian Mkt>Nikkei Crashes Under 37,000; Cratering 1,260 pts/3.3% at Midday; USD/JPY Reaches 153.64
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Risk aversion sentiment grew as the Middle Eastern geopolitical situation worsened, while expectations for US interest rate cuts strongly cooled down. USD/JPY reached 153.64.

Nikkei reversed the previous day's uptrend, and opened this morning (19 Apr) 355 points or 0.9% lower at 37,724. The decline expanded sharply this morning and it sunk under 37,000, once crashing 1,346 points or 3.5% to bottom at 36,733, a low of more than two months. It closed cratering 1,260 points or 3.3% to 36,818 at midday.

Major bank stocks were under pressure, with Mitsubishi UFJ, Resona Holdings, Sumitomo Mitsui and Mizuho falling 1.8% to 3.3%. Investment bank stocks dropped more, with Daiwa Securities and Nomura Holdings plummeting 3.3% and 4.2% each.

Heavyweights and popular stocks dragged the market down, with Fast Retail, TEPCO and NTT down 1.5% to 2%, Softbank crumpling 4.6%, and Rakuten crashing 6.3%. The sharp rise in JPY exchange rates weakened export stocks, with major auto stock Nissan diving 2.1%, while peer Toyota, Honda, and Mitsubishi Motors retreated 3.4% to 3.7%.

Cooling expectations of US interest rate cuts dealt a huge blow to the interest rate-sensitive semiconductor sector. Resonac Holdings, SUMCO, Renesas Electronics, Tokyo Electron, SCREEN, and Lasertec Corp cratered 7% to 9.7%. Chip system stock Socionext evaporated 10.4%, the worst-performing index constituent.

Oil stocks rallied and bucked the market trend, with ENEOS and Idemitsu rising 1.3% to 1.5%, while Inpex hiked nearly 5%. The worsening situation in the Middle East has aggravated disruptions to shipping routes between Europe and Asia, with the top three shipping stocks - Nippon Yusen, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and Mitsui OSK - lifting 2.1% to 3%.

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