Nikkei down over 4% on Wall St

TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei average fell 4.1% on Thursday after US stocks fell to six-week lows on worries about a deepening recession and Japanese machinery orders fell a record 16.2% in November from the previous month.

The benchmark Nikkei shed 348.61 points to 8,089.84, while the broader Topix lost 3.2% to 793.37.

Source: UtviNews