{"id":48912,"date":"2021-07-30T12:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=48912"},"modified":"2021-07-30T12:21:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T08:21:36","slug":"nikkei-closes-at-its-lowest-level-in-more-than-6-months-on-virus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/nikkei-closes-at-its-lowest-level-in-more-than-6-months-on-virus-fears\/07\/30\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei Closes at Its Lowest Level in More Than 6 Months on Virus Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Japanese Nikkei index closed at its lowest level since the beginning of the year as investor sentiment was negatively affected by the rise in Covid-19 cases, some disappointing earnings announcements, and a decline in US stock futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei fell 1.8% to close at 27,283.59 points, the largest drop since June 21 and the lowest closing level since January 6. The Nikkei fell to 27,272.49 earlier in the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the month, the Nikkei fell 5.24%, in the worst performance since the market crash due to the Coronavirus pandemic in March of last year, after recording a decline for the eleventh consecutive session on the last trading day during the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Topix index plunged 1.37% to 1911.62, recording a monthly decrease of 2.19%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the Japanese government extended the state of emergency until August 31 in Tokyo and some other prefectures, as infections with the Coronavirus rose to a record high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Nikkei index closed at its lowest level since the beginning of the year as investor sentiment was negatively affected by the rise in Covid-19 cases, some disappointing earnings announcements, and a decline in US stock futures. The Nikkei fell 1.8% to close at 27,283.59 points, the largest drop since June 21 and 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-48912","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\/48912","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=48912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48913,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48912\/revisions\/48913"}],"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=48912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}