Profit Booking, Extended Weekend Drag Down Nikkei - Japan Commentary (Nasdaq) (RTTNews) - Friday, profit booking and the extended weekend dragged the Nikkei 225 index in Japan. The index gap opened lower at 16,444.71 points and dropped below 16,400 points to hit a day's low of 16,397.79. Buying at this level prevented further slide and lifted the index for a while.
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Major Asian Markets Witness Profit Booking - Commentary (Nasdaq) (RTTNews) - Friday, profit booking at higher levels prevented any upside in major stock exchanges in Asia. While Australia witnessed firm trading, weak trading was seen New Zealand. Japan and Hong Kong markets remained in the negative territory on profit booking.