Name: Japan's Nikkei Posts Worst Day Since 1987 Black Monday Stock Market Crash
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Description: Japanese stocks plunged on Aug. 5 in their biggest drop since the 1987 Black Monday sell-off, amid concerns about the global economy and fresh forecasts of a possible recession.

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Japanese stocks plunged on Aug. 5 in their biggest drop since the 1987 Black Monday sell-off, amid concerns about the global economy and fresh forecasts of a possible recession.

The Nikkei 225, a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, shed 12.40 percent on Monday, losing 4,451 points, the largest drop in its history. In 1987, the index <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Equities/Japan-stocks-dive-4-451-points-more-than-Black-Monday-in-1987">lost</a> 3,836.48 points, which was the worst previous decline.

The Nikkei share average drop comes as as Friday's dismal jobs data in the United States heightened worries of a possible recession, and as the yen rallied to seven-month highs versus the dollar.

Japan's banking stocks led the rout, pushing the Nikkei into bear market territory with a 27 percent drop from its July 11 peak of 42,426.77. From July 11 to Monday's close of 31,458.42, the Nikkei has wiped out 113 trillion yen ($792 billion) of its peak market value.

"The rapid move in the yen is putting downward pressure on Japanese equities, but it's also driving an unwind of a major carry trade - investors had leveraged up by borrowing in yen to buy other assets, chiefly U.S. tech stocks," Capital.com's senior financial market analyst Kyle Rodda said. "We are basically seeing a mass deleveraging as investors sell assets to fund their losses."

But Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki, who <a href="https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/japan-government-is-cooperating-with-boj-fsa-to-monitor-stock-markets-says-finance-minister-shunichi-suzuki-11722844817970.html">told</a> reporters Monday that the government was watching the markets,  said that it is "hard to say" what is behind the plunge in the Nikkei. He addressed the media after Monday's trading ended.

Some major Japanese companies were impacted. Honda Motor Co. dropped 13.4 percent, while Toyota Motor Corp fell about 11 percent. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group fell 18.4 percent, and Tokyo Electron plunged 15.8 percent, according to Livemint.com.
<h2>Inside the United States</h2>
Last week's Department of Labor report <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">showing</a> hiring by U.S. employers significantly slowed last month by much more than expected has convulsed financial markets. While job growth had been on the decline before last month, it was relatively stable despite the Federal Reserve's move to push interest rates to their highest levels in about two decades.

In the report, nonfarm payrolls increased by 114,000 jobs in July, well below the average of about 215,000 jobs added per month over the past year. That's also lower than the 200,000 jobs that economists say are needed to keep up with growth in the population, which accounts for the recent surge in legal and illegal immigration.

"If Fed officials had seen this report, they would have cut rates by 25 basis points this week," Boston College economics professor Brian Bethune said. "There is absolutely no justification for continuing to exert an elevated level of monetary restrictiveness on the economy."

Early Monday morning, the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell by about 600 points, or 1.5 percent, while the Nasdaq-100 dipped 3.4 percent. U.S. Treasury yields dropped as well, with the benchmark 10-year note at 3.79 percent. That's down from a week before when it yielded 4.20 percent.

Also on Monday, cryptocurrency bitcoin <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/08/05/bitcoin-continues-to-bleed-falls-below-50k/">plunged</a> nearly 10 percent, dipping below $50,000 for the first time in several months.

Last week, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told reporters that the U.S. central bank is likely to issue its first rate cut in four years, noting that the economy is making progress on persistent inflation.

“We’re getting closer to the point at which it’ll be appropriate to reduce our policy rate,” Powell said, “but we’re not quite at that point.”

In a transcript of a statement issued on Wednesday, the Federal Reserve said that U.S. job increases "have moderated" and noted that the unemployment rate has been on the rise.

"Inflation has eased over the past year but remains somewhat elevated. In recent months, there has been some further progress toward the Committee’s 2 percent inflation objective," the Fed said, reiterating that it wants to keep inflation at around 2 percent in the long term.

<em>Reuters contributed to this report.</em>

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/japans-nikkei-posts-worst-day-since-1987-black-monday-stock-market-crash-5699755">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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