India, March 30 -- The Japanese stock market is trading sharply lower on Monday, extending the losses in the previous two sessions, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street on Friday, with the Nikkei 225 falling 3.7 percent to below the 35,800 level, with weakness across all sectors led by index heavyweights and technology stocks.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is down 1,328.31 points or 3.58 percent at 35,792.02, after hitting a low of 35,574.61 earlier. Japanese shares ended sharply lower on Friday.
Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is declining more than 5 percent and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is losing almost 4 percent. Among automakers, Honda is losing more than 3 percent and Toyota is declining almost 3 percent.
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