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Nikkei fell 0.6%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-04 · market close

Nikkei 225 closed at 63,957.53 on 2026-08-04, fell 0.6% on the session and is +27.1% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Japan's Nikkei 225 ended Tuesday's session lower, falling 1.81% to close at 63,197.57. The drop extended an uncomfortable stretch for the benchmark, which was down 2.67% over the past week and 8.05% over the past month.

Step back, though, and the longer horizons still lean positive. The index was up 6.6% over three months and 25.54% for the year to date. Tuesday's close sat 12.67% below the 52-week high of 72,366.34 and a full 56.85% above the 52-week low of 40,290.70, so the recent slide has undone part of a very large run rather than erasing it.

The moving averages tell the same split story. The Nikkei closed beneath its 50-day moving average of 67,119.74 — the average closing level over the last 50 sessions, a common shorthand for the short-term trend — while remaining comfortably above its 200-day average of 57,050.61, the equivalent gauge for the longer trend. In plain terms, the medium-term uptrend was still intact even as the shorter one had turned down.

The peer readings in the pack carry different as-of dates, so they describe each market's most recent close rather than one shared session. Among markets also marked 4 August, South Korea's KOSPI was sharply weaker at -6.49% while Australia's ASX 200 added 0.98%. The US figures are dated 3 August, and all three were higher: the S&P 500 up 1.48%, the Nasdaq up 2.13% and the Dow up 1.32%. The European and other Asian entries are dated 31 July, showing the FTSE 100 down 0.27%, the DAX up 0.07%, the CAC 40 up 0.28%, the Euro Stoxx 50 up 0.21%, the Hang Seng up 0.1%, Shanghai up 0.72%, the TAIEX up 7.98%, the Sensex up 0.21% and the Nifty 50 up 0.27%.

On the news side, a headline from business-standard.com reported the Nikkei sliding with markets watching the yen. A more recent headline from TradingKey reported Japanese and South Korean stocks opening higher, while a separate TradingKey headline from roughly a day earlier reported both markets under renewed pressure, with Korean chipmakers falling hard. Older headlines, from Reuters and The Japan Times more than two weeks back, described the index entering a correction on a technology selloff and Middle East conflict. These are reports of what was published, not confirmed explanations of Tuesday's move.

What the data establishes is the shape of the session and the position within the range: a firm decline, a close below the 50-day average, and a year-to-date gain still intact. The pack does not establish a single obvious catalyst for the fall, and the peer readings — spread across three different dates — do not settle whether this was a Japan-specific move or part of a broader regional one.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.