Asian shares sink, with Japan’s Nikkei down 5.6% as China-US trade war escalates

The deepening worries over President Donald Trump’ s trade war helped pull Japan’s Nikkei 225 share index down 5.6%. On Thursday, the S&P 500 tumbled 3.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,014 points, or 2.5%, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 4.3%.