{"id":42906,"date":"2021-03-15T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T08:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=42906"},"modified":"2021-03-15T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T08:34:51","slug":"japan-shares-closed-higher-posting-3-weekly-gain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japan-shares-closed-higher-posting-3-weekly-gain-2\/03\/15\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Shares Closed Higher, Posting 3% Weekly Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks rose on Monday thanks to the optimism that accompanied the approval of a huge US stimulus package to support stocks linked to the economic cycle, while SoftBank Group shares fell, while other technology companies recorded limited gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index rose 0.17% to close at 29,766.97 points, and the broader Topix index rose 0.91% to 1,968.73 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose to an unprecedented fifth consecutive high on Friday after the US House of Representatives finally approved a $1.9 trillion stimulus package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of transport and materials companies rose in Japan. Shipbuilder Mitsui E&amp;S Holdings Inc. jumped 7.78%, and shipping companies Kawasaki Kesen rose 7.02% and Nippon Yusen rose 4.74%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna Holdings Inc. jumped 4.43% and Japan Airlines 3.79%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technology stocks fell in Japan, tracking losses in the Nasdaq index, and SoftBank Group shares fell 2.49%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tokyo Electron lost 1.56% and Advantest 1.26%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks rose on Monday thanks to the optimism that accompanied the approval of a huge US stimulus package to support stocks linked to the economic cycle, while SoftBank Group shares fell, while other technology companies recorded limited gains. The Nikkei index rose 0.17% to close at 29,766.97 points, and the broader Topix index rose &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40115,"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-42906","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\/42906","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=42906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42907,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42906\/revisions\/42907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}