Japan’s Nikkei Falls Nearly 5% on CoreWeave Debt and Inflation Fears
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index dropped nearly 5%, with the broader Topix down 2.5%, driven by a selloff in AI-related stocks. Concerns over US cloud firm CoreWeave's financial health and fears of rising interest rates after hotter US inflation data impacted market sentiment. Chipmakers Advantest and Tokyo Electron fell 13.9% and 7.3%, while SoftBank Group declined 9.4%.
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