India, Feb. 27 -- Reversing the gains in the previous session, the Japanese market is sharply lower on Friday, following the broadly negative cues from Wall Street overnight. The Nikkei 225 is tumbling 2.6 percent to well below the 37,300 level, with weakness across most sectors led by index heavyweights, exporters and technology stocks.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is down 996.55 points or 2.60 percent to 37,259.62, after hitting a low of 37,164.61 earlier. Japanese shares ended modestly higher on Thursday.
Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is losing more than 5 percent and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is down more than1 percent. Among automakers, Toyota is losing more than 2 percent and Honda is down almost 2 percent.
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