Fast Retailing, which operates the popular casual clothing chain Uniqlo, said it had temporarily closed about 100 stores in and around Hubei.
TOKYO: Japanese Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura warned on Tuesday that corporate profits and factory production might take a hit from the coronavirus outbreak in China that has rattled global markets and chilled confidence.
Asian stocks extended a global selloff as the outbreak in China, which has killed 106 people and spread to several countries, fuelled concern over the damage to the world's second largest economy - an engine of global growth.
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