India, April 16 -- The Japanese market is trading significantly lower on Friday, snapping a three-session winning streak, despite the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight. The Nikkei 225 is falling below the 59,050 level, with weakness in financial stocks and a mixed performance in most other sectors.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is down 491.42 points or 0.83 percent to 59,026.92, after hitting a low of 59,381.25 earlier. Japanese shares ended sharply higher on Thursday.
Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is losing almost 2 percent and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is edging down 0.5 percent. Among automakers, Toyota is losing almost 1 percent, while Honda is edging up 0.5 percent.
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