Nikkei 225 · March 16, 2011
The day after the Tōhoku crash
+5.68%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
Japan's 34-year climb back
early in it · 2009-03-10 → 2024-02-22, +454.20% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- On 16 March 2011 the Nikkei 225 rose 5.68% in a single day
- The Tōhoku earthquake struck on 11 March, the reactor crisis followed, and the index crashed over two sessions
- Factories stopped and power supply was cut, so disruption across manufacturing looked unavoidable
- The Bank of Japan injected a record amount of funds and increased its equity ETF purchases
- The rebound began as views spread that the reactor situation would not reach the worst case
- Days later the major countries intervened together in the currency market to stop the yen surging
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.