Tokyo (EFE) .- The main index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Nikkei, opened the session on Wednesday with a fall greater than 3%, after the United States’s decision to re-increase tariffs on Chinese imports up to 104%.
After the first 10 minutes of negotiation, the Nikkei, which groups the 225 most representative titles of the market, fell 3.18% to 31,962.33 integers.
The broader selective Topix, which includes the signatures of the main section, the largest capitalization, lost 3.04% to 2,358.20 units.
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The Japanese square was dragged by the losses noted on Wall Street after the decision of the administration of President Donald Trump to raise tariffs to China to a total of 104 % from the US midnight for the retaliation of Beijing to his tariff increases.
Tokyo’s bag closed the previous day with a 6% advance of the Nikkei, encouraged by negotiations between Washington and its commercial partners, which also motivated a green opening in New York, but the mood among investors was deflated after the last developments around Beijing.
Investors in Tokyo would also have adopted a cautious posture for the entry into force in the next hours of the 24% tax imposed by the US to Japanese imports within the framework of what it considers ‘reciprocal’ tariffs.
The 10 most negotiated values in the opening in Tokyo scored losses, including the two largest Japanese banks, Mitsubishi UFJ and Mitsui Summit, which fell around 4% and 5%, respectively.
Among the best -selling actions were also those of some of the values of greater local capitalization, such as the automobile manufacturer Toyota, which lost more than 2%, the technological multinational and sony entertainment, which fell about%, and the developer and distributor of Nintendo video games, which receded around 1%.
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