Points Wednesday: Points and Media Reports

points wednesday: It gained 3.22 points the previous day, according to The Japan Times. Selling outpaced buying from the outset of Thursday's session after the U.S. Dow Jones industrial average ended below 26,000 for the first time in four market days Wednesday. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 171.35 points, or 0.79 percent, to end at 21,385.16, after rising 107.12 points Wednesday. ; The Topix index of all first-section issues finished down 12.76 points, or 0.79 percent, at 1,607.66. Investors' risk appetite was tempered by weaker-than-expected Japanese industrial output for January and Chinese manufacturing purchasing managers' index for February, both released Thursday, brokers said. Other media reports said U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cut short their summit schedule as they failed to agree on the communist country's denuclearization. The two major stock indicators accelerated their downswings toward the close on media reports that a press conference following the U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi would take place two hours earlier than scheduled, the brokers said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.