A lesson from Japan on how American factories are connected to collapsing stock prices.

Japan's Nikkei stock index closed about 16,000 for the first time since 2007.

Today, the Japan Nikkei Index went up another 1.8 percent to get very close to a six year high.

As the drama unfolds here at home, it is important to see how the fiscal cliff is affecting economies elsewhere in the world — like Asia.

Here are today's headlines from Marketplace Morning Report and around the web. …

Tokyo's Nikkei was down 6 percent. The biggest drop since the financial crisis. Toyota says its plants will be shut down this week. Sony and Nissan…