https://gyokuro.dev/en/tags/japanese-equities/Recent content in Japanese Equities on Gyokuro Timehttps://gyokuro.dev/images/gyokuro-avatar.pnghttps://gyokuro.dev/images/gyokuro-avatar.pngHugo -- 0.147.9enSat, 18 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0900https://gyokuro.dev/en/posts/seven-seventeen-beta/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0900https://gyokuro.dev/en/posts/seven-seventeen-beta/<p>On 17 July the Nikkei 225 closed at 64,141, down 2,694 points on the day. That is a fall of 4.03%. As a one-day drop it ranks fifth on record; as a week it was the largest ever, at 4,416 points. Semiconductors and the wider AI complex led the way down: Kioxia Holdings fell 16.1%, Ibiden 9.9%, Tokyo Electron 8.2% and Advantest 7.2%.</p> <p>The headlines reached for a warning about the AI growth story. Line the day&rsquo;s moves up in a row, though, and the story that was supposedly under threat is nowhere to be seen. What shows up is duller than that.</p>