Nikkei 225 · September 12, 2001
September 11 — Nikkei
-6.63%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
September 11 and deflation
midway through · 2001-05-07 → 2002-02-06, -35.16% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- 12 September 2001 — Nikkei 225 fell 6.63%. US markets were closed and Asia opened first
- For those four days Asian markets played an unusual role
- Normally they react to New York's close; this time there was no New York price to reference
- Investors worldwide watched Tokyo and Seoul to estimate how the US would respond
- The timing was especially hard for Japan, still not out of the long stagnation begun in 1990 and still carrying unresolved bank problems
- Little capacity to absorb an external shock
- Fell 32.96% from 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.