Coronavirus latest: Japan stocks fall further after Wall St plummets

Tokyo’s Topix dropped 2.5% at the open, taking the benchmark index down more than 30% for the year. The move followed S&P 500 index’s collapse of 12 per cent on Monday, marking the biggest one-day fall since the crash of October 1987.

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