New session in the red for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the largest in the Asia-Pacific. On Thursday, the Nikkei index lost another 2.04% to end at 9,191 points, its lowest level this year.
The bad behavior of Wall Street the day affects the morale of investors. Especially in the Standard & Poor's 500, which yielded 1.01% to 1031 points, and pushing the major support of 1040 points.
In Tokyo, the upward trend of the yen against the dollar and the euro affects the titles of exporting companies, prompting investors to discard.
Market participants also seem to have overlooked the results of well-oriented business confidence survey (Tankan), conducted quarterly frequency by the Bank of Japan (BoJ).The Tankan index of confidence among large manufacturers in Japan has had a positive effect in June for the first time in two years, rising 15 points over March to a point, according to the Bank of Japan (BoJ) payday loan Online. This result confirms hopes of a return of the second world economy, whose growth is being driven for months by exports to Asian countries and emerging economies, notably China.
Crude prices were also driven lower on Thursday in electronic trading in Asia, following a rise in gasoline stocks and a slowdown in net new jobs planned for the month of June in the United States.
In morning trading, a barrel of light sweet crude for August delivery was down 77 cents at 74.86 dollars a barrel, while Brent North Sea for delivery in August, gives 50 cents to 74 $ 51. Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), a barrel of light sweet crude for August delivery ended at 75.63 dollars, down 31 cents from the previous day.