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Nikkei
The common term for the Nihon Keizai newspaper, Japan's leading financial newspaper. The Nikkei usually refers to the price-weighted average of 225 stocks of the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Nikkei
A price-weighted index consisting of 225 prominent stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Nikkei has been calculated since 1950 and its direction is considered an indicator of the state of the Japanese economy. Most analysts consider it the Japanese equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.


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TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING WITH NIKKEI CLOSING LOW AT LEAD AND 4TH GRAFS) Cabinet ministers and ruling party lawmakers on Tuesday stepped up their calls for fresh measures to boost plummeting Tokyo stock prices, as the key Nikkei index closed at a fresh 26-year low.
95-point decline on Monday, with the key Nikkei index closing above 15,000 for the first time in more than 13 weeks.
TOKYO, March 10 Kyodo ---------- Calls for stock-boosting steps grow in gov't as Tokyo market tanks TOKYO - Cabinet ministers and ruling party lawmakers on Tuesday stepped up their calls for fresh measures to boost plummeting Tokyo stock prices, as the key Nikkei index closed at a fresh 26-year low.
 
 
 
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