Tokyo stocks, as measured by the Nikkei average of 225 major issues, are hovering around 10,000.
Although the Tokyo market was temporarily regarded as a “place of refuge” for funds fleeing from U.S. stocks, global stock trading is being paced by falls in the U.S. resulting from accounting scandals at major corporations.
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