Ueda hospitalized, Uchida steps in: Next week's 45-minute press conference may determine the market trend for the second half of the year.
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The scenes after the opening of the Tokyo stock market on August 5, 2024, still haunt traders with nightmares.
The Nikkei 225 Index plummeted 12.4% in a single trading day—the most severe one-day crash since Black Monday in 1987. Seoul’s KOSPI triggered circuit breakers and halted trading.