Section Issues: Points and Nikkei Briefly

section issues: Wednesday, the key market gauge lost 256.77 points. ; The Topix index of all first section issues closed down 4.43 points, or 0.29 percent, at 1,531.98, after shedding 14.58 points the previous day, according to The Japan Times. The market got off to a weak start, after the Dow Jones Industrial Average extended losses in New York on Wednesday amid growing fears of a global economic slowdown stemming from the prolonged U.S.-China trade dispute, brokers said. The 225-issue Nikkei average fell 60.84 points, or 0.29 percent, to end at 20,942.53, its first finish below the psychologically important line since March 25. Also weighed down by a weak performance of Shanghai stocks, the Nikkei briefly lost over 190 points in the morning. Economic uncertainty grew following the occurrence of a so-called yield curve inversion in the United States, said Hiroaki Kuramochi, chief market analyst at Saxo Bank Securities Ltd. Tokyo stocks recouped some of their losses in the afternoon, helped by a weaker yen against the dollar and buying from value investors, brokers said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.