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- In Tokyo, financial and tech names remained at the forefront of the selloff, where they were joined by consumer electronics sliding on poor US retail sales figures and a rally in Japanese Yen. Coming out of mid-day break, Sony, Sharp, and Hitachi were down over 3%, while Toshiba fell over 5%. In other notable Nikkei decliners, Komatsu was down 4.5% after announcing it would close two domestic plants resulting in impairment charges of ¥6.5B and Mazda fell over 2% on a cut at Deutsche. Elpida rallied over 7.5% on press speculation that the government would provide funding to the company to assist with Taiwan partnership, but reversed those gains on official repudiation of those rumors