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The Nikkei Stock Average staged a sharp rebound in Tokyo trading on the morning of the 9th, closing the morning session up 1,976.57 points (3.44%) from the previous Friday at 59,411.34. The gains came on the heels of a strong rally in the Nasdaq Composite and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) in U.S. markets at the end of last week, which sparked broad buying centered on AI and semiconductor-related stocks, with the Nikkei’s gain briefly topping 2,000 points. On 5ch’s investor threads, opinion split over whether this rebound marks a genuine recovery or just a temporary bounce, with posters debating when margin calls and forced liquidations would hit traders caught in Friday’s plunge, as well as how Anthropic’s upcoming IPO might affect the market.
The Nikkei Stock Average rebounded in Tokyo trading on the morning of the 9th, with the morning session closing up 1,976.57 points (3.44%) from the previous Friday at 59,411.34. On the 6th, the last trading day of the previous week, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX), which tracks major chip-related stocks, both posted sharp gains in U.S. markets. Tokyo markets followed suit, with buying led by artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor stocks spreading across a wide range of issues. The Nikkei’s gain briefly exceeded 2,000 points.
[Nikkei QUICK News (NQN)]
Nikkei, November 9, 2026, 11:37
Source: nikkei.com / Original article here
What people said
It's not really panic-selling—there's just no upside room left, so of course normal selling shows up.
With inflation factored in, the forward P/E's already under 16, though.
Might not happen again for another 30 years, who knows?
You make money by selling. Predicting a drop is the easier bet anyway.
EPS is climbing like crazy thanks to inflation and earnings, so there's fresh room to run.
That's already priced in. The upside room's been used up.
it's the same cycle, over and over.
The ultimate version of that was the Lehman crash. Bodies piled up from people grabbing on expecting a rebound.
Exactly. It's less shorting, more day trading. A regular salaried office worker can't win at that.
The whole point of being a salaried employee is that you never needed to beat day traders at their own game in the first place.
Do you even understand Japanese?
That's not what I meant—salaried workers can't buy and sell on a dime the way shorting or day trading requires. The point is they lack that agility.
AI stocks are still no good. Prices are only up because of the weak yen—if it swings back to yen strength, they'll drop.
This isn't gambling—you can read it to some extent.
Kioxia barely got any buying today.
Earnings have nothing to do with the market.
I actually think everyone's timing their profit-taking around that. Same pattern as SpaceX—pump it up first, then sell.
Double or nothing, push it all in…! (a nod to the gambling manga 'Kaiji')
That's true in general, but if you're talking about today specifically, you're wrong. Margin calls and forced liquidations for the people who got hit by Friday's crash on margin start tomorrow.
Over the long haul it's basically a steady climb. But fiddling with it along the way is how people mess up index investing.
If the investor lived forever, it would always succeed. But humans have a lifespan, and everyone sells at a different time. If you're at a loss when you sell, people just say 'tough luck' and that's the end of it. You can only say that because, unlike individual stocks, there's no sudden bankruptcy risk.
By your grandkids' generation, it'll probably be in the black.
Fitting, since JT (Japan Tobacco) used to run the salt monopoly—being 'pickled in salt' is right up their alley.
I thought the same, so I sold off 70% of my holdings. It might not crash hard, but it probably won't rally hard for a while either. Figured I might as well step away from stocks for a bit and live a slower life—maybe take a trip with my wife using the gains.
Background and Key Points of Debate
This rebound followed on from a sharp drop in U.S. tech stocks at the end of the previous week, against the backdrop of the Nikkei itself having plunged sharply the preceding Friday. The thread split over one key question: whether it’s safe to ride this bounce. Some saw a genuine recovery led by AI and semiconductor stocks, while others argued it was merely a temporary bounce, since margin calls and forced liquidations for traders caught in Friday’s crash were set to intensify from the start of the new week. Another point of debate was Anthropic’s IPO, said to be the largest in history but also criticized as overpriced—a factor that could sway the outlook for AI-related stocks either way. Comments about individual stock gains and losses reflect personal experiences of individual investors and should be read separately from any overall assessment of the market.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “[Stock Price] Nikkei Morning Session Close: Rebounds, Up 1,976 Points to 59,411.”
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