After the market closed on Wednesday, shares in Japan went down because of losses in the electrical/mechanical and precision/precision industrial machinery sectors.
The Nikkei 225 lost 0.02% by the end of the day in Tokyo.
Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd. (TYO:3382), which rose 3.68% or 193.00 points to trade at 5,443.00 at the end of the day, did the best on the Nikkei 225. In late trading, Aeon Co., Ltd. (TYO:8267) went up 3.61%, or 97.50 points, to end at 2,802.00, and West Japan Railway Co. (TYO:9021) went up 2.69%, or 154.00 points, to 5,889.00.
Shinsei Bank, Ltd. (TYO:8303), which fell 4.63% or 102.00 points to close at 2,103.00, did the worst of the day’s stocks. Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TYO:8035) fell 4.39%, or 1,610.00 points, to end at 35,090.00, and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (TYO:7211) fell 3.91%, or 19.00 points, to 467.00.
By 1962, there were 1506 stocks that went down and only 284 that went up on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TYO:8035) shares fell to their lowest point in the last 52 weeks, dropping 4.39%, or 1,610.00, to 35,090.00. West Japan Railway Co. (TYO:9021) shares hit 52-week highs, going up by 154.00, or 2.69 percent, to 5,889.00.
Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, went up by 11.32 percent to 25.97.
Crude oil for delivery in November fell by 0.34 percent, or $0.30, to $89.05 per barrel. In other commodity trading, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.15 percent, or $0.14, to $94.15 per barrel, and the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.60 percent, or $10.20, to $1,675.80 per troy ounce.
EUR/JPY went up 0.29% to 141.94, and USD/JPY went up 0.18 percent to 146.13.
At 113.16, the US Dollar Index Futures went up by 0.03%.
