TOKYO, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — Tokyo shares closed barely greater on Tuesday, led by in a single day features on Wall Street and rises of shares in different Asian markets.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, ended up 56.98 factors, or 0.18 %, from Monday at 32,226.97.
The broader Topix index completed 3.6 factors, or 0.16 %, greater at 2,303.41.
On the Prime Market, gainers have been led by electrical energy and gasoline, actual property, and retail shares.
Bucking the pattern, electrical merchandise, wholesale commerce, mining and different sectors suffered losses.
Issues that rose outpaced people who fell by 1,221 to 538, whereas 76 ended the day unchanged.
The turnover on the second buying and selling day of the week got here to 2.78 trillion yen (about 19 billion U.S. {dollars}), under the 3-trillion-yen mark for the eighth consecutive buying and selling day. (1 U.S. dollar equals 146.44 Japanese yen)