Japanese shares ease before U.S. jobs data

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The U.S. Dollar dropped 0.5% against the Yen to 96.44 from 97.52 earlier today and Japanese stocks sank before today's non-farm employment change and unemployment rate data releases in the U.S, which might shed light on the future of Fed's monetary easing. Nikkei 225 index shrank 1.9%, while Topix fell 2.4%. Economists expect the U.S. unemployment to stay at 7.5% and the economy to add additional 170,000 jobs.
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