Agence France-PresseMay 24, 2013 02:01
Tokyo stocks lost their early gains on Friday afternoon as they tumbled back into the red, a day after suffering the worst one-session drop since Japan's March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster.
The benchmark Nikkei 225, which on Thursday tumbled 7.3 percent, was down 3.37 percent, or 488.64 points, at 13,995.34 at 0445 GMT, before halving that loss just a few minutes later.
The wild market swings erased a brief morning rally that saw the benchmark index surge more than three percent.
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