Asian indices ended slightly lower today as investors digest the recent developments on Brexit and confusing headlines over trade deal...
Nikkei 225
In this section, you will find important Nikkei 225 news, actionable trading ideas, and a live Nikkei 225 CFD chart to help you better understand the stock index.
What is Nikkei 255 Index ?
The Nikkei 225 is the main Japanese stock market index and is a price-weighted stock market index initiated on September 7, 1950, and consists of the top 225 companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Some of the companies listed on Asia’s most popular index are Konica Minolta, Panasonic, Softbank Group, Sony, Nissan, Daiwa Securities, and Toyota Motor. Companies in the technology space account for over 40 percent of the index, and valuations are denominated in Japanese yen (JPY).
The composition of the Nikkei is reviewed every year in September, and any changes take place in October. Because of the diversified nature of the index, many financial instruments linked to the Nikkei 225 have been created and traded worldwide while the index has been sufficiently used as the indicator of the movement of Japanese and broader Asian economy.
Asian stocks are mixed today as traders continue to reflect on the ongoing earnings season. In Japan, the Nikkei 225...
The Nikkei 225 index is among the best-performing indices in Asia today. The index is up by more than 1.77%,...
Global stocks are rallying today as traders reacted to the expected gridlock in Washington. In Asia, the Nikkei 225 is...
The Nikkei 225 surged to the highest level since August 1990 after the relatively strong economic data from Japan. The...
Nikkei 225 and Asian stocks trading lower on Friday followed a new chapter in trade tensions between China and the USA. President Trump banned the transactions of U.S. companies with ByteDance
Nikkei 225 recovered yesterday’s losses after Fed delivered the 25 basis points interest rate cut that markets widely expected. The...
Asian stock markets and risk currencies traded higher this morning on hopes that central banks around the world would soon...
Asian markets trading mostly lower as the number of new infections keep rising in some states and Australia. President Trump said yesterday that the surge in coronavirus cases in the country
The Nikkei 225, Hang Seng, and ASX, are performing well in today's trading on news that the US and China are still in good terms after reports surfaced that tensions are rising between the two countries.