{"id":38201,"date":"2020-12-07T12:04:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=38201"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:04:55","slug":"japans-nikkei-index-is-slipping-from-a-29-and-a-half-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japans-nikkei-index-is-slipping-from-a-29-and-a-half-year-high\/12\/07\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei Index is Slipping From a 29-and-a-Half Year High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks closed lower Monday, December 7, as the Nikkei benchmark retreated from its highest levels in more than 29 and a half years, as gains for five consecutive weeks raised some concerns from a frenzied market and prompted investors to sell for profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nikkei fell 0.76% to 26547.44 points, after recording its peak since April 1991 at the open. The broader Topix index lost 0.86% to 1760.75 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Tokyo, stocks led first with positive indications from the US stock trading session on Friday, then reversed their direction by profit-taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main US stock indices rose to unprecedented levels last week, amid mounting expectations for a new financial stimulus after pessimistic US jobs data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks closed lower Monday, December 7, as the Nikkei benchmark retreated from its highest levels in more than 29 and a half years, as gains for five consecutive weeks raised some concerns from a frenzied market and prompted investors to sell for profit. Nikkei fell 0.76% to 26547.44 points, after recording its peak since &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-38201","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\/38201","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=38201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38202,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201\/revisions\/38202"}],"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=38201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}