Nikkei/Yen index plummeted by 4,451 points or 12.4%, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.JP) fell by 19.3%, international financial stocks fell, HSBC (00005.HK) fell 5.7% to HKD 62, with a volume of about 41.073 million shares involving HKD 2.596 billion; Standard Chartered (02888.HK) fell 5.8% to HKD 68.35, with a trading volume of about 1.478 million shares involving HKD 0.1 billion.
As for domestic banks, CCB (00939.HK) fell by 2.78% to HKD 5.25; ICBC (01398.HK) fell by 3.47% to HKD 4.17; BOC (03988.HK) fell by 4.67% to HKD 3.27; ABC (01288.HK) fell by 4.26% to HKD 3.37.