market: Although major U.S. market gauges extended their record-breaking streaks Tuesday, Tokyo stocks met with selling to lock in profits from the outset, according to The Japan Times. A sense of achievement spread since both the Nikkei and Topix indexes rewrote their respective highs for this year Tuesday, brokers said. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 131.69 points, or 0.55 percent, to end at 23,934.43, On Tuesday, the key market gauge soared 113.77 points. ; The Topix index of all Tokyo Stock Exchange first-section issues finished down 8.80 points, or 0.50 percent, at 1,738.40, after jumping 10.33 points the previous day. The market kept heading south as profit-taking pressure increased amid a dearth of fresh buying incentives, they noted. Growth stocks such as Nintendo were noticeably lower, said Hiroaki Kuramochi, chief market analyst at Capital Partners Securities Co. Investors also boosted selling to square positions in light of Wall Street turning to produce fewer gains and the yen's firming against the dollar, said Yutaka Miura, senior technical analyst at Mizuho Securities Co.
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