{"id":46183,"date":"2021-05-27T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=46183"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:10:36","slug":"japan-stocks-tumble-on-profit-taking-selling-and-pandemic-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japan-stocks-tumble-on-profit-taking-selling-and-pandemic-fears\/05\/27\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Stocks Tumble on Profit-Taking Selling And Pandemic Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks fell Thursday, May 27, as investors trimmed their positions after a recent increase, in light of a possible extension of emergency measures linked to Covid-19, which raised concerns about the growth of the local economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index trimmed its losses during the day, closing down 0.33% to 28,549.01 points, halting a 5-day winning streak of 2.1%. The broader Topix index fell 0.5% to 1911.02 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan, which is set to host the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics in July, is struggling to contain the fourth wave of infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of steel makers and shipping companies led today&#8217;s losses, as the two sectors lost 2.6% and 2.3%, respectively, while air carriers&#8217; shares achieved the largest gains in the stock market, gaining 2.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks fell Thursday, May 27, as investors trimmed their positions after a recent increase, in light of a possible extension of emergency measures linked to Covid-19, which raised concerns about the growth of the local economy. The Nikkei index trimmed its losses during the day, closing down 0.33% to 28,549.01 points, halting a 5-day &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-46183","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\/46183","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=46183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46184,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46183\/revisions\/46184"}],"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=46183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}