{"id":67357,"date":"2022-06-20T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T08:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=67357"},"modified":"2022-06-20T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T08:33:31","slug":"nikkei-closes-at-its-lowest-level-in-more-than-five-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/nikkei-closes-at-its-lowest-level-in-more-than-five-weeks\/06\/20\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei closes at its lowest level in more than five weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei closed at a more than five-week low on Monday as energy and chip-related shares led losses as investors struggled to find signs of market action due to a holiday in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index fell 0.74 percent to 25,771.22 points, its lowest closing level since May 12, after gaining as much as 0.7 percent in early trading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The broader Topix index fell 0.92 percent to close at 1818.94 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of oil exploration companies fell 9.13 percent and led the losses of 33 industrial sub-indexes in the Tokyo Stock Exchange after oil prices fell during the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of oil refiners fell 5.5 percent, with Ineos Holding and Idemitsu Kosan losing 5.05 percent and 7.05 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wafer equipment maker Tokyo Electron fell 5.2 percent, and Shin-Etsu Chemical shares fell 6.39 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of auto and auto parts makers rose after the yen fell against the dollar over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The volume of shares traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange reached 1.22 billion, compared to an average of 1.36 billion in the past 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei closed at a more than five-week low on Monday as energy and chip-related shares led losses as investors struggled to find signs of market action due to a holiday in the United States. The Nikkei index fell 0.74 percent to 25,771.22 points, its lowest closing level since May 12, after gaining as much &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33466,"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":[37,39,36],"tags":[6939,6851],"class_list":["post-67357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-forex-markets","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-japan","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67357","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=67357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67358,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67357\/revisions\/67358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}