{"id":38486,"date":"2020-12-11T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T08:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=38486"},"modified":"2020-12-11T12:27:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T08:27:31","slug":"nikkei-posts-first-weekly-loss-in-6-weeks-due-to-brexit-and-virus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/nikkei-posts-first-weekly-loss-in-6-weeks-due-to-brexit-and-virus-fears\/12\/11\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei Posts First Weekly Loss in 6 Weeks Due to Brexit And Virus Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index fell on Friday, posting its first weekly loss in six weeks, as risk appetite waned due to the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, US stimulus and concerns about a spike in COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei fell 0.39% to close at 26,652.52 points, losing 0.37%for the week. But the broader Topix index closed up 0.33% at 1,782.01 and gained 0.34% for the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said today that the coronavirus situation in the country is critical, but added that he is not considering suspending a government program to support travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sentiment weakened further after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was a &#8220;strong possibility&#8221; that Britain and the European Union would fail to strike a trade deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares in SoftBank Group fell 4.7%, two days after making big gains stemming from a report on potential share buybacks and a successful initial public offering (IPO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index fell on Friday, posting its first weekly loss in six weeks, as risk appetite waned due to the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, US stimulus and concerns about a spike in COVID-19 cases. The Nikkei fell 0.39% to close at 26,652.52 points, losing 0.37%for the week. But the broader Topix index closed up 0.33% &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-38486","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\/38486","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=38486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38487,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38486\/revisions\/38487"}],"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=38486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}