Tokyo stocks nosedive on Trump showing

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2016
Tokyo stocks nosedive on Trump showing

TOKYO - Tokyo stocks nosedived Wednesday as results suggested that market-favoured Hillary Clinton was struggling in her bitter battle against Donald Trump for the US presidency.

The benchmark Nikkei 225 index plummeted 4.87 percent, or 836.69 points, to 16,334.69, just a few minutes into afternoon trading, after swinging between gains and losses for most of the morning as election results trickled in.