nikkei closing 19,435 down, tom isaac 1,573 down just over 3%. nikkei hitting its lowest intraday level today since july 9th at china's economic slowdown weighing heavily consentment. one analyst said china may be bearing down on federal reserve in u.s. over raising rates at the same time also keeping a close eye on plunging stocks globally because of concerns over china's slowing growth. with the stocks falling we also saw the dollar retreating as well to its lowest level against the yen since mid july. that, of course, weighed heavily on a lot of key exporters coming up there. nintendo, toyota, chipmaker tokyo electron among some big names. interestingly shares in the energy sector which had been pummeled pretty much this week saw a little bit of a rebound. looking at jx holdings which had been trading positive early on came in for a touch of selling closing in the negative. investors heading into next week, the last trading week of august amid a lot of concerns about slowing growth in china and the effect that is having on overall market senti