{"id":4462,"date":"2006-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"tokyo-shares-outlook-lower-after-markets-worldwide-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2006\/tokyo-shares-outlook-lower-after-markets-worldwide-plunge.html","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo shares outlook &#8211; Lower after markets worldwide plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; <span class=\"mainarttxt\">Share prices are expected to open lower as market sentiment is likely to be dampened by a retreat on Wall Street and other markets around the world, dealerssaid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">On Wall Street overnight, the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 21.03 points to 2,172.86, its weakest close in 6-1\/2 months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 18.73 points to11,125.33, its lowest level in a month, while the S&amp;P 500 Index fell 4.97 points to 1,262.06.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">In London, the FTSE 100 was down 124.7 at 5,532.7, its lowest level since December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index closed down 507.84 points or 3.11 pct at 15,805.52.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">Here yesterday, the blue-chip Nikkei 225 Stock Average closed down 297.58 points or 1.8 pct at 15,857.87, while the broader TOPIX index of all first-section issues closeddown 22.71 points or 1.4 pct at 1,615.86.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">Dealers said hedge funds are selling to take profits as they enter the season for reporting earnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">Some funds are putting their money into the haven of the debt market, they said.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/afxnewslimited\/feeds\/afx\/2006\/05\/22\/afx2764976.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Share prices are expected to open lower as market sentiment is likely to be dampened by a retreat on Wall Street and other markets around the world, dealerssaid. On Wall Street overnight, the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 21.03 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}