{"id":75978,"date":"2022-11-21T12:08:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=75978"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:08:55","slug":"nikkei-closed-slightly-higher-on-rate-hike-and-covid-fears-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/nikkei-closed-slightly-higher-on-rate-hike-and-covid-fears-in-china\/11\/21\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei closed slightly higher on rate hike and Covid fears in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese stocks closed slightly higher on Monday, although stocks included in the Nikkei index remained below 28,000 points, as a rise in the number of COVID-19 infections in China overshadowed sentiment in Asia while traders waited for more clarity regarding the issue. What will happen to interest rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei ended trading up 0.2 percent, recording 27,944 points. The broader Topix index rose 0.3 percent, recording 1972 points. Indicators remain in place for about a week. Trading volumes are expected to be limited due to holidays in the United States and Japan during the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sapporo Holdings led the gains, up 2.8 percent. The stocks of commercial institutions rose, benefiting from the rise and volatility of commodity and energy prices. Shares in Marubeni rose 2 percent and touched a record 1,514 yen in morning trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, those gains were offset by a sharp decline in other stocks, led by the share of the insurance company, Sombo Holdings, which fell 8 percent after the company announced net losses in six months after the end of trading hours on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese stocks closed slightly higher on Monday, although stocks included in the Nikkei index remained below 28,000 points, as a rise in the number of COVID-19 infections in China overshadowed sentiment in Asia while traders waited for more clarity regarding the issue. What will happen to interest rates. The Nikkei ended trading up 0.2 percent, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":71426,"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":[7211,6877,6928,6882],"class_list":["post-75978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-global-stock-markets","category-market-updates","tag-currencies","tag-dollar","tag-euro","tag-forex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75978","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=75978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75979,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75978\/revisions\/75979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}