Nikkei 225 · December 3, 2009
The Bank of Japan moves on the yen
+3.84%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
A year off the crisis low
near the end of it · 2009-03-10 → 2010-04-05, +60.73% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- On 3 December 2009 the Nikkei 225 rose 3.84%
- In late November the yen had reached the eighty-fours per dollar, its strongest in fourteen years
- The Bank of Japan called an unscheduled meeting and agreed to supply banks with cheap funds in volume
- A dearer yen cuts exporters' profits, and in a recovery that feeds straight into the index
- From around here, the Bank of Japan repeatedly answered a rising yen with easing
- In this stretch the index was 14.65% below its peak
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.