Tokyo stocks rise on final day, but suffer record loss

Tokyo stocks rise on final day, but suffer record loss

TOKYO, Japan - Popular Japanese badminton pair Kumiko Ogura (L) and Reiko Shiota ring the bell during the annual closing ceremony at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi area on Dec. 30. Tokyo stocks rose in the year's final, half-day session, but the key Nikkei index ended 2008 with its steepest one-year percentage drop of 42.1 percent, reflecting investor sentiment battered by a string of macroeconomic and corporate woes.

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