{"id":44087,"date":"2021-04-08T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=44087"},"modified":"2021-04-08T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:30:09","slug":"japan-shares-drop-due-to-coronavirus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japan-shares-drop-due-to-coronavirus-fears\/04\/08\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Shares Drop Due to Coronavirus Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese shares fell on Thursday, April 8, as they came under pressure from a rise in domestic infections with the Coronavirus and the possible return of restrictions on economic activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index fell 0.07% to 29,708.98 points, while the broader Topix index fell 0.79% to 1,951.86 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tokyo governor said she would ask the central government to adopt emergency measures in the capital to combat a sudden increase in coronavirus infections and the spread of a new strain of the virus. The city of Osaka, in the west of the country, is also expected to declare a medical emergency after the number of new infections in it rose to a record level, which raised a state of anxiety among public health officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese shares fell on Thursday, April 8, as they came under pressure from a rise in domestic infections with the Coronavirus and the possible return of restrictions on economic activity. The Nikkei index fell 0.07% to 29,708.98 points, while the broader Topix index fell 0.79% to 1,951.86 points. The Tokyo governor said she would ask &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,36],"tags":[6939,6971],"class_list":["post-44087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-japan","tag-nikkei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44088,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44087\/revisions\/44088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}