{"id":38771,"date":"2020-12-17T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T08:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=38771"},"modified":"2020-12-17T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T08:38:52","slug":"japan-stocks-closing-higher-on-hopes-of-us-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japan-stocks-closing-higher-on-hopes-of-us-stimulus\/12\/17\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Stocks Closing Higher on Hopes of US Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks closed higher for a second session Thursday (December 17th) as sentiment received a boost from expectations of further economic stimulus in the US and pledges of support from the US Federal Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The benchmark Nikkei index rose 0.18% to 26,806.67 points, offsetting losses incurred in morning trade. The broader Topix index rose 0.32% to 1,792.58 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caution prevailed among some dealers, as Japan battled the third wave of coronavirus, but positive developments in the United States provided support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior lawmakers in the Democratic and Republican parties expressed their optimism about agreeing on a $900 billion aid bill to alleviate the repercussions of Covid-19, and the US Central Bank pledged to continue pumping cash into financial markets until the economy regains recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stocks may easily decline due to profit-taking selling after the Nikkei reached its highest level in 29 and a half years, but analysts point to optimistic expectations in the medium term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks closed higher for a second session Thursday (December 17th) as sentiment received a boost from expectations of further economic stimulus in the US and pledges of support from the US Federal Reserve. The benchmark Nikkei index rose 0.18% to 26,806.67 points, offsetting losses incurred in morning trade. The broader Topix index rose 0.32% &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-38771","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\/38771","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=38771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38772,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38771\/revisions\/38772"}],"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=38771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}