Nikkei trades about 3,600 points lower as AI and semiconductor shares face selling
Japan’s Nikkei average struggled to recover in mid-afternoon trading on November 6, hovering in the 57,400s, about 3,600 points below the previous close. Selling continued in AI and semiconductor shares including SoftBank Group, Kioxia and Tokyo Electron, while declines in Taiwan’s benchmark and South Korea’s KOSPI weighed on the market. At 2 p.m., turnover on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market was approximately 8.75 trillion yen.