Nikkei Crashes 1000 Points, Tumbles Into Bear Market

• Nikkei Crashes 1000 Points, Tumbles Into Bear Market
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Update: Japan’s Nikkei and the broader Topix indices fell over 1,000 points, or 5% in Tuesday morning trading to a 20-month low on the heels of the worst S&P 500 Christmas Eve crash on record. The Nikkei average hit an intra-day low of 19,138.88, or -5.09%, while the broader Topix was also around 5% lower. 
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  A few hours after the S&P tumbled over 2.7%, sliding into a bear market for the first time in a decade, Japan’s Nikkei 225 – which had been sliding gradually for the past week – dropped sharply by over 3.2% at the open…
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