{"id":45193,"date":"2021-04-30T12:35:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T08:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=45193"},"modified":"2021-04-30T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T07:57:14","slug":"japan-shares-drop-on-tech-companies-and-pandemic-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japan-shares-drop-on-tech-companies-and-pandemic-fears\/04\/30\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Shares Drop on Tech companies&#8217; And Pandemic Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks closed lower Friday, April 30, weighed by disappointing expectations for technology companies, while the rise in the frequency of Covid-19 infections in the country affected investor sentiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index fell by 0.83% to close at 28812.63 points, while the broader Topix index fell 0.57% to 1898.24 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese technology stocks led the losses, as investors turned to the latest business results reports and sold shares of companies that failed to meet their high expectations for a strong recovery this year, analysts said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts said that investor concerns are also increasing about Covid-19, with the rise in new infections in Tokyo and Osaka even after the declaration of a state of emergency in the two cities earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tokyo had recorded 1,027 daily cases on Thursday, the highest level since January 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks closed lower Friday, April 30, weighed by disappointing expectations for technology companies, while the rise in the frequency of Covid-19 infections in the country affected investor sentiment. The Nikkei index fell by 0.83% to close at 28812.63 points, while the broader Topix index fell 0.57% to 1898.24 points. Japanese technology stocks led the &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-45193","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\/45193","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=45193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45194,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45193\/revisions\/45194"}],"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=45193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}