Japan stock index down more than 5 percent
Posted February 11, 2016 6:00 am
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's benchmark stock index dived more than 5 percent Friday following a sell-off in European and U.S. markets.
The Nikkei 225 was down 5.3 percent at 14,876.64. Other Asian stock markets were also lower but less dramatically.
FILE - This July 15, 2013, file photo, shows a sign for Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange. Global markets shuddered again Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, with bank stocks in particular getting hammered, oil falling further and investors turning to perceived safe havens like gold. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
The Associated Press
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