{"id":52056,"date":"2021-10-06T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=52056"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T09:01:49","slug":"japan-shares-hit-a-more-than-6-week-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japan-shares-hit-a-more-than-6-week-low\/10\/06\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Shares Hit a More Than 6-Week Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index reversed course to close at its lowest level in more than 6 weeks, weighed by concerns about rising interest rates, a slowdown in China, and the country&#8217;s new prime minister with low approval ratings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index fell 1.05% to close at 2,7528.87 points, its lowest level since August 23. The index, which rose 1.4 percent earlier in the session, closed at a loss for the eighth consecutive session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The broader Topix index also fell 0.3% to 1941.91 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heavyweights led the losses, with Fast Retailing, which operates clothing stores Uniqlo, down 3.1 percent, chipmaker Tokyo Electron shedding 2.08 percent, and technology investment group SoftBank shedding 2.07 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, a local media poll showed that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is struggling to find a foothold with voters just two days after forming his new government. A daily newspaper put his approval rating at 45 percent, much lower than the administration of his predecessor Yoshihide Suga when she came to power last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index reversed course to close at its lowest level in more than 6 weeks, weighed by concerns about rising interest rates, a slowdown in China, and the country&#8217;s new prime minister with low approval ratings. The Nikkei index fell 1.05% to close at 2,7528.87 points, its lowest level since August 23. The index, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":45914,"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-52056","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\/52056","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=52056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52058,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52056\/revisions\/52058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}