{"id":32884,"date":"2020-08-19T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=32884"},"modified":"2020-08-19T17:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:48:23","slug":"japans-nikkei-index-rises-after-gains-in-us-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japans-nikkei-index-rises-after-gains-in-us-technology\/08\/19\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei Index Rises After Gains in US Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Nikkei benchmark index made slight gains at the close on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with some tech stocks surging after the gains of US giants, with the S&amp;P 500 index climbing to a record high last night. The Nikkei Index is very close to a three-decade high in dollar terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index rose 0.26% to 23110.61 points, after making losses over two days. The broader TOPIX index rose 0.18% to 1613.73 points. When calculated in dollars, it scored 219.10, just 0.3% less than its 2019 peak, its highest since 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SoftBank Group, which invests in technology companies around the world, rose 3.3%, while Nintendo rose 1%, to its highest level in 12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IT equipment and services companies, Fujitsu and NEC, gained 2.4% and 3.7%, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nikkei benchmark index made slight gains at the close on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with some tech stocks surging after the gains of US giants, with the S&amp;P 500 index climbing to a record high last night. The Nikkei Index is very close to a three-decade high in dollar terms. The Nikkei &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,36],"tags":[6939,6971],"class_list":["post-32884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-japan","tag-nikkei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32885,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32884\/revisions\/32885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}