Foreigners Net Sellers of Japanese Stocks for 3rd Week .
Tokyo, Aug. 17 (Jiji Press)–Foreign investors were net sellers of Japanese stocks for the third straight week last week, a Tokyo Stock Exchange report showed Thursday.
In the week of Aug. 7 through Aug. 10, overseas investors posted a selling excess of 274,672 million yen, up from the previous week’s 29,513 million yen, according to the report on stock transactions via 52 brokerage firms on the TSE and the Nagoya Stock Exchange, Japan’s two major cash stock markets.
The key 225-issue Nikkei stock average fell 222.59 points, or 1.12 pct, to end the reporting week at 19,729.74, battered by growing geopolitical tensions over North Korea. JIJI PRESS