🇯🇵 GRANDE: The Nikkei 225 enters technical correction
Japan has just confirmed what the markets had been anticipating: the Nikkei 225 closed more than 10% below its all-time high from June 25, officially entering technical correction territory.
📉 Friday’s session was brutal: the index fell 4% to 64,141 points, marking its worst week since April 2025.
🔻 The broader Topix was not spared either: it slid 2.7% to 3,919 points.
⚙️ The cause? A volatile combination:
* Doubts about whether the global semiconductor and AI rally was overvalued
* Massive selloffs in tech names: Kioxia (-16%), Tokyo Electron (-8%), SoftBank (-9%), Advantest (-7%)
* Rising geopolitical tension from the conflict between the U.S. and Iran, which pushed oil prices higher and reignited inflation fears
📊 The index had been coming off an extraordinary rally, moving from ~44,000 points at the end of 2025 to a peak near 73,000 in June 2026—so, despite the correction, the underlying uptrend has not been technically broken yet.
🌐 Another sign that the AI party in global markets is starting to show cracks. The question now is whether this is a healthy pause... or the start of something bigger.
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