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n. 1 A Japanese emigrant or a descendant thereof who is not a citizen of Japan. Commonly used in Japan to refer to people of Japanese ancestry that are living abroad as citizens of other countries. 2 the value of shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Wikipedia
Nikkei can refer to:
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, abbreviated 日経, Nikkei, a large media corporation in Japan
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, a Japanese-language newspaper published in São Paulo, Brazil
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, a Japanese stock market index, published by Nihon Keizai Shimbun
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, often simply Nikkei, people in the Japanese diaspora
Usage examples of "nikkei".
The Nikkei Dow lost fully a sixth of its net value in one trading day, and though analysts proclaimed confidently that the market was now grossly undervalued and a huge technical adjustment upward was inevitable, people thought in their own homes that if the American legislation really became law, the market for the goods their country made would vanish like the morning fog.
On Wednesday, the Fourth, the day the Trade Reform Act cleared committee, the Nikkei Dow fell to 12,841 yen, roughly a third of what it had been in recent memory, and the panic in the country was quite real now.
The Nikkei Dow would fall again that day, down to a closing value of 6,540 yen, about a fifth of what it had been only a few years before.
With the Nikkei at less than 60 percent of its value of just a few short years ago and property values at ten cents on the dollar, the banks' assets were perilously low.
That was good news for me because many of the banks I control are heavily invested in Nikkei stocks.