{"id":90966,"date":"2023-10-16T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=90966"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T07:55:17","slug":"japans-nikkei-index-fell-as-investor-sentiment-was-affected-by-tension-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/japans-nikkei-index-fell-as-investor-sentiment-was-affected-by-tension-in-the-middle-east\/10\/16\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index fell as investor sentiment was affected by tension in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index fell by more than two percent on Monday, affected by a decline in stocks related to the chip manufacturing sector and in light of a decline in risk appetite due to escalating tension in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nikkei index fell 2.03 percent, closing at 31,659.03 points. The broader Topix index lost 1.53 percent to 2,273.54 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 and Nasdaq indices fell on Friday as data on consumer sentiment deteriorated and the conflict in the Middle East worsened, which led to investors&#8217; reluctance to take risks. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.12 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shares of heavyweight companies linked to chip manufacturing fell, tracking the shares of American technology companies, with Tokyo Electron and Advantest shares falling 3.84 percent and 4.79 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SoftBank Group shares, which operate in the technology field, fell 2.04 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei index fell by more than two percent on Monday, affected by a decline in stocks related to the chip manufacturing sector and in light of a decline in risk appetite due to escalating tension in the Middle East. The Nikkei index fell 2.03 percent, closing at 31,659.03 points. The broader Topix index lost &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":90891,"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":[37,36],"tags":[6837,6885,8501,8143],"class_list":["post-90966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-forex-markets","category-market-updates","tag-eurozone","tag-fed","tag-feds-beige-book","tag-interest-rate-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90966","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=90966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90967,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90966\/revisions\/90967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}