Tokyo stocks jump 2.7% to lead most of Asia

Posted on March 18, 2011 at 04:21 AM EDT

Stocks in Tokyo lead most Asian markets higher after some of the world’s richest nations agreed to put their weight behind Japan to keep the yen from rising as the country struggled to cope with the aftermath of last week’s earthquake.

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