TOKYO, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) — Tokyo shares closed larger Wednesday, as rises within the U.S. stock index futures led to a dominant shopping for sentiment out there.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index rose for the third consecutive day, reclaiming the 32,000 degree. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 153.55 factors, or 0.48 p.c, from Tuesday to shut the day at 32,010.26.
The broader Topix index completed 11.34 factors, or 0.5 p.c, larger at 2,277.05.
In the opening hours, the Nikkei Average briefly dipped as promoting dominated attributable to a decline registered within the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average, closing at its lowest level since mid-July on the day gone by.
The market later witnessed an enlargement of shopping for exercise within the morning session, with cautious buying and selling forward of the earnings announcement of U.S. semiconductor big NVIDIA.
On the Prime Market, gainers had been led by iron and metal, nonferrous steel, and pulp and paper shares.
Issues that rose outpaced those who fell by 1,410 to 354, whereas 70 ended the day unchanged.
The turnover for the day got here in at 2.51 trillion yen (17.22 billion U.S. {dollars}), the bottom degree in about 4 months since April 25.