TOKYO, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks closed lower Friday as investor sentiment was dented by a global equities rout, with tech shares deepening losses on Wall Street overnight as the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials suffered their worst daily percentage drops in six weeks.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average dropped 186.87 points, or 0.92 percent, from Thursday to end the day at 20,033.43.
The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, meanwhile, lost 12.17 points, or 0.75 percent, to close at 1,611.90.
Food, securities, and information and communication-related issues comprised those that declined the most by the close of play, and declining issues outpaced advancing ones by 1,409 to 490 on the First Section.
Trading volume on the main section on Friday came to 1,968.97 million shares, rising from Thursday's volume of 1,950.41 million shares.
The turnover on the final trading day of the week totaled 2,602.4 billion yen (23.23 billion U.S. dollars).
