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Why are stocks suffering?

3 August 2024

5:05 AM

3 August 2024

5:05 AM

Today’s stock market plunge is interesting for two main reasons. First, for those of us who have never traded on the Japanese stock exchange, comes the revelation that the colours used to denote changes in stock prices are the inverse of those used on western markets: red means a share has gone up, green means it has gone down.

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