The Tokyo Stock Exchange finished Thursday’s session slightly up, after playing yoyo throughout the session, while the yen weakened particularly against the euro.
At the end of trading, the Nikkei index of 225 blue chips nibbled 0.07% (14.68 points) to 20,488.19 points back into the green after two negative sessions. He previously chained a series of twelve increases, the most since 1988.
The broader Topix index of all securities in the first table, for its part rose 0.23% (3.90 points) to 1673.89 points.
Despite profit taking, the market was supported by the decline of the Japanese currency, a favorable movement in the Japanese exporters title.
When closing in Tokyo (0600 GMT), the dollar was around 124.29 yen, while the euro bought 140.05 yen, a level not seen since mid-January.
The single currency , which had already benefited greatly from the announcement Tuesday of the restart of inflation in the eurozone in May, continued its momentum after the meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Wednesday s’ was more optimistic about its inflation forecast for 2015 (0.3%).
Investors continued to monitor the Greek case, while negotiations have entered their final stretch.
Athens and its creditors failed to reach agreement in Brussels on the reforms to be implemented to quickly release a tranche of financial aid vital to the financial survival of the country, but the climate was considered globally “constructive”
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As for Nikkei values, insurance companies have led the way, especially Dai-ichi Life Insurance ( + 6.29% to 2379.5 yen). Financial stocks also rose sharply, like Nomura (+ 3.29% to 849.3 yen) and Megabank Mitsubishi UFJ (+ 1.16% to 924.3 yen).
Analysts attributed this performance to the rise in the rate of new bonds maturing Japanese government ten years around 0.500%, the highest in six months.
In addition, the renewed the euro has played favorably on the well-established groups on the Old Continent, such Konica Minolta (office-optical; + 1.21% to 1587 yen), Fujitsu (computer equipment and services; + 1.86% to 742, 2 yen) or Nintendo (video games; + 1.14% at 21,190 yen).
Out of the Nikkei, trade group and online services Rakuten fell 6.2% to 1,951.5 yen after unveiling a fundraiser to 188 billion yen (about 1.5 billion) to repay debts and support future investments.
This capital increase plan was very cool reception by the shareholders, because of fears dilution of their shares.
Also note, the telecom operator SoftBank has yielded 1.17% to 7348 yen after the announcement of an investment of one billion dollars (890 million euros) in the site South Korean merchant Coupang.
In the area car, Toyota has won 0.14% to 8527 yen, and Nissan 0.83% to 1330.5 yen.
Among the other stars securities, Sony took 0.49% to 3773 yen, just before the announcement of good news Standard & amp rating agency; Poor’s. She no longer plans immediately degrade the long-term rating of the group, hailing encouraging prospects in the activity of the image sensors and video games.
kap-ANB / agr / php
04.06.2015 11:17:57 – Tokyo , June 4, 2015 (AFP) – AFP © 2015
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