India, March 10 -- The Japanese stock market is trading sharply lower on Tuesday, reversing the gains in the previous session, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight, with the Nikkei 225 falling well below the 36,100 level, with weakness across most sectors led by index heavyweights, exporters and technology stocks. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is down 973.68 points or 2.63 percent at 36,054.59, after hitting a low of 35,987.13 earlier. Japanese shares ended modestly higher on Monday.
Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is losing almost 4 percent and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is down more than 2 percent. Among automakers, Honda is edging down 0.3 percent and Toyota is declining 3.5 percent.
In the tech space, ...