{"id":33606,"date":"2020-09-04T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=33606"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:50:53","slug":"japan-shares-closing-lower-but-nikkei-is-up-1-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japan-shares-closing-lower-but-nikkei-is-up-1-4\/09\/04\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Shares Closing Lower But Nikkei is up 1.4%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks closed lower, after a wave of selling in technology shares that rose a lot on Wall Street pushed the market to its biggest drop in nearly three months. However, Tokyo markets closed the week higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The benchmark Nikkei index closed 1.1% down at 23,205.43 points, shy of its six-month closing high it reached on Thursday. The number of declining shares outnumbered that rising by 161 to 54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The broader TOPIX index fell 0.9% to 1616.60 points. During the week, the Nikkei index gained about 1.4%, ending its two-week losses, and the TOPIX index rose 0.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nasdaq index lost about 5% after achieving a record close, while the heavyweight stocks Apple, Microsoft and Amazon fell the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, analysts say investors were cautious ahead of the US jobs data expected to be released later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks closed lower, after a wave of selling in technology shares that rose a lot on Wall Street pushed the market to its biggest drop in nearly three months. However, Tokyo markets closed the week higher. The benchmark Nikkei index closed 1.1% down at 23,205.43 points, shy of its six-month closing high it reached &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33466,"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":[6939,6851],"class_list":["post-33606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-japan","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606","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=33606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33607,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33606\/revisions\/33607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}