After Tuesday’s trading day ended, stocks in Japan went up because of gains in the retail, mining, and shipbuilding sectors.
At the end of trading in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 went up by 0.24%.
NTN Corp. (TYO:6472), which rose 4.44% or 12 points to close at 282.00 on the Nikkei 225, was the best performer of the session. In late trading, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (TYO: 7211) went up 3.31%, or 19 points, to finish at 593.00, and Mazda Motor Corp. (TYO: 7261) went up 3.23%, or 33 points, to 1,054.00.
CyberAgent Inc (TYO:4751), which fell 4.14%, or 53 points, to close at $1,228.00, was the worst performer of the session. Eisai Co., Ltd. (TYO: 4523) fell 3.25 percent, or 327 points, to end the day at 9,723, and Softbank Group Corp. (TYO: 9984) fell 2.49 percent, or 151 points, to 5,917.
On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the number of stocks that went down was 2,115 to 1,409, and 271 stayed the same.
The implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, which is measured by the Nikkei Volatility, went down by 7.54% to 18.39.
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The price of a barrel of crude oil for delivery in January went up 0.8%, or $0.68, to $77.61. Brent oil for February delivery went up 1.02%, or $0.84, to $83.52 a barrel, and the February gold futures contract went up 0.07%, or $1.20, to $1,782.50 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY went up by 0.40 percent to 137.29, and EUR/JPY went up by 0.28 percent to 143.85.
At 105.39, the US Dollar Index Futures were up 0.14 percent.
