Tokyo stocks post year's largest tumble

Tokyo stocks post year's largest tumble

TOKYO, Japan - People watch the stock price board at a Tokyo brokerage house March 29 as the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average plunged 693.15 points in the year's steepest fall to close at the day's low of 13,072.36.

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