TOKYO, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — Tokyo shares ended decrease on Friday for the sixth straight buying and selling day, as earlier good points led by exporter points on a weaker yen had been greater than offset by promoting of tech shares.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, ended down 111.68 factors, or 0.29 %, from Thursday at 38,701.90.
The broader Topix index, in the meantime, completed 11.84 factors, or 0.44 %, decrease at 2,701.99.
The yen fell to as little as round 157.90 in opposition to the U.S. dollar in early morning buying and selling, hitting a five-month low. But the Japanese foreign money later rebounded to the higher 156 degree versus the buck after the finance minister warned the federal government will act “appropriately” in opposition to extreme foreign money actions.
Tokyo shares had been principally in optimistic territory from the outset because the weaker yen boosted export-oriented auto points, however promoting of heavyweight know-how shares monitoring declines of their U.S. counterparts restricted good points, analysts mentioned.