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Tokyo stocks dive 5.5% as Trump closes in on White House

TOKYO, Nov 9, (APP/AFP) – Tokyo stocks nosedived
Wednesday as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared to be closing in on victory in the knife-edge race for the White House.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index plummeted 5.5 percent, or 949.36
points, to 16,222.02 in afternoon trading.