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...Among the hardest-hit sectors was manufacturing, which accounts for one in six non-farming jobs....
...The numbers do not include investor reaction to the sharp rise in the yen against the US dollar early in Tokyo on Wednesday morning that saw it briefly touch Y78.50, the highest since co-ordinated G7 intervention...
...But the slowdown was exaggerated by Japan’s supply-chain disruptions, said Euben Paracuelles, a south-east Asia economist at Nomura....
...Top holdings include Lindsay Manufacturing, a Nebraska-based producer of irrigation systems, the Potash Corp of Saskatchewan and Syngenta, the Anglo-Swiss seeds and crop protection group....
...In Hong Kong, Bank of East Asia fell by 4.9 per cent to HK$41.85....
...Now the north-east’s biggest manufacturing employer with 4,200 staff, it does not house Nissan’s UK design base, but is consistently Europe’s most productive car plant....
...Hon Hai Precision Industry, the island’s biggest electronics company, shed 6.2 per cent to close at NT$171.50, while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co fell 6.9 per cent to NT$45.80....
...Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world’s biggest chipmakers, made its biggest gain in three years after a newspaper reported its deliveries in the first quarter would be bigger than expected...
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