The Nikkei 225 index is rising today as investors react to the latest developments on Softbank. The index is up...
Nikkei 225
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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, a day after the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100 ended sharply lower. The...
The Nikkei 225 is up by more than 0.60%, continuing the bullish trend that started in Wall Street yesterday. The...
Nikkei 225 index ended higher on Tuesday on improved sentiment after the tech stocks sell-off in Wall Street the previous week.
The Nikkei 225 declined by more than 0.45% as traders digested news that Softbank was the Wall Street whale that pushed technology stocks higher.
Global stocks are mixed today as investors react to mixed economic data from around the world. In Asia, the Nikkei...
Nikkei 225 index trading higher as Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is the leading candidate to replace Abe in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) election on September 14.
Asian stocks soared to a 29-month high as investors reacted to the mixed PMI data from China. The manufacturing PMI...
The Nikkei 225 index is among the best-performing indices in Asia today. The index is up by more than 1.77%,...
Nikkei 225 fell on late trading after reports that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will resign due to health problems. The other major Asian indices ended mostly higher.