Nikkei 225 · June 8, 2026
Seoul's chip shock reaches Tokyo
-3.85%
single-day change vs previous close
What happened that day?
- On 8 June 2026 the Nikkei 225 fell 3.85%
- That same day Korea fell by close to a double-digit percentage and had to halt trading
- Japan's channel into it was the chip equipment makers, whose customers are the Korean and Taiwanese fabs
- The trigger had been the US chip selloff the previous Friday, after an AI chip outlook fell short
- The Nikkei had been near a record high right up to that point. The further it had run, the more it gave back
- From the peak the index was down 10.19%
- It bounced the very next day, and set a new record a week later
Sources
Every figure on this page is recomputed from the original daily closing prices and checked against them at build time. The account of what happened is written from the sources listed above.