TOKYO, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) — Tokyo shares closed greater on Thursday, the primary rebound in three days amid rising U.S. high-tech stock costs and the weaker yen.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, ended up 479.98 factors, or 1.49 p.c, from Wednesday to shut the day at 32,646.46.
The broader Topix index, in the meantime, completed 29.17 factors, or 1.26 p.c, greater at 2,335.12.
Market watchers right here identified that purchasing in expectation for greater costs was predominant amongst abroad short-term patrons on Thursday’s Tokyo market, monitoring the in a single day rises in U.S. high-tech stock costs, amid the Japanese yen’s ongoing depreciation in opposition to the U.S. dollar.
On the top-tier Prime Market, gainers had been led by oil and coal merchandise, mining, and securities home points.
Issues that rose outpaced those who fell by 1,285 to 332, whereas 42 ended the day unchanged.