{"id":43881,"date":"2021-04-05T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=43881"},"modified":"2021-04-05T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T09:00:43","slug":"japanese-stocks-closed-higher-on-strong-us-jobs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japanese-stocks-closed-higher-on-strong-us-jobs-data\/04\/05\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Stocks Closed Higher on Strong US Jobs Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks closed higher on Monday, April 5, as strong employment data in the United States reinforced optimism about the recovery of the world&#8217;s largest economy, prompting investors to buy index-heavy stocks such as Softbank Group and Fast Retailing, in addition to shares of companies linked to the chip industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The benchmark Nikkei index rose 0.82% to close at 30,089.25 points, reaching the 30,000-point barrier for the first time in more than two weeks. The broader Topix index advanced 0.6% to 1983.54 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Labor Department said the number of jobs in non-farm sectors increased by 916,000 last month, the largest increase since last August. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a 647,000 increase in jobs in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks closed higher on Monday, April 5, as strong employment data in the United States reinforced optimism about the recovery of the world&#8217;s largest economy, prompting investors to buy index-heavy stocks such as Softbank Group and Fast Retailing, in addition to shares of companies linked to the chip industry. The benchmark Nikkei 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-43881","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\/43881","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=43881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43882,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43881\/revisions\/43882"}],"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=43881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}