{"id":60947,"date":"2022-02-25T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=60947"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T13:20:53","slug":"japans-nikkei-index-rises-at-the-close-supported-by-technology-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japans-nikkei-index-rises-at-the-close-supported-by-technology-shares\/02\/25\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei Index Rises Supported by Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks halted a five-session losing streak on Friday, boosted by technology heavyweights and after a massive rebound on Wall Street overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index rose 1.95 percent to close at 2,6476.50 points, but it fell 2.3 percent this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The broader Topix index rose 1 percent to 1,876.24 points but fell 2.5 percent for the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US stocks closed sharply higher overnight, led by a 3 percent rise in the Nasdaq index after US President Joe Biden unveiled tough new sanctions on Moscow after its attack on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chip-related shares led the gains, with Tokyo Electron rising 5.79 percent and Advantest adding 7.71 percent. And SoftBank Group, which invests in the technology sector, gained 5.56 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medical platform services company M3 rose 5.37 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banks and insurance shares fell 2.21 and 3.27 percent, respectively, after US Treasury yields fell overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks halted a five-session losing streak on Friday, boosted by technology heavyweights and after a massive rebound on Wall Street overnight. The Nikkei index rose 1.95 percent to close at 2,6476.50 points, but it fell 2.3 percent this week. The broader Topix index rose 1 percent to 1,876.24 points but fell 2.5 percent for &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-60947","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\/60947","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=60947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60949,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60947\/revisions\/60949"}],"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=60947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}