Tokyo (awp/afp) – The Tokyo Stock Exchange ended Monday in sharp decline, as fears of an imminent invasion of Ukraine by Russia have intensified in recent days and had already weighed on Wall Street at the end of the week. last.
The flagship Nikkei index dropped 2.23% to 27,079.59 points (-616.49 points) and the broader Topix index lost 1.63% to 1,930.65 points.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was also at half mast (-1.5% around 06:10 GMT).
Washington reaffirmed on Sunday that the Russians could attack Ukraine “at any time”, and further intense diplomatic efforts over the weekend between Western leaders and the Kremlin did not lower the tension.
Having observed a public holiday in Japan on Friday, the Tokyo Stock Exchange also belatedly digested stronger-than-expected January inflation figures in the United States, yet another sign of more aggressive monetary tightening from the Federal Reserve. US (Fed), most likely as early as March.
On the side of values
SOFTBANK: the title of the Japanese giant of investments in new technologies SoftBank Group fell by 3.92% to 5,268 yen.
Beyond the turbulence on the financial markets playing against it, the group also risks seeing its IPO project for Arm become complicated due to a legal battle between the British manufacturer of microprocessors and its major Chinese subsidiary. , which wants to gain more and more autonomy.
On the side of currencies and oil
The yen was almost stable against the dollar, at a rate of one dollar for 115.39 yen around 06:25 GMT against 115.42 yen on Friday at 21:00 GMT.
One euro traded for 130.93 yen, against 131.00 yen at the end of last week, and was worth 1.1347 dollar against 1.1350 dollar on Friday.
The oil market was still stimulated by the outbreak of fever in Ukraine: around 06:15 GMT the price of a barrel of American WTI rose by 1.36% to 94.37 dollars and that of a barrel of Brent from the North Sea took 1.1% to $95.48.
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