Nikkei 225 slumped 3.67% at 21,142 amid rising fears that the damage in the economy due to coronavirus spread will...
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 were mixed in today’s trading with the Nikkei 225 closing 2.13% or 478.03 points lower at 21,948.16. On...
Asian equities markets spent another day in the bears’ territory today as coronavirus cases continued to pile up. The Nikkei...
Asian equities markets were mixed in today’s trading. While the Japanese and mainland Chinese stocks traded lower, Hong Kong markets...
Asian indices run higher today as investors increased bets that China will intervene with cash injections to support the coronavirus...
A warning from Apple Inc. (AAPL) that it will not match the Q2 revenue forecasts due to supply disruption on...
Asian stock indices started the week mixed as investors trying to reaccess the risk from the coronavirus outbreak and the...
Asian equities markets were mixed in today’s trading as investors digest the surge in yesterday’s coronavirus cases. The Nikkei 225...
Risk aversion sparked by a spike in the number of coronavirus cases is dominating market sentiment in today’s trading. The...
Just like their US counterparts, Asian stock markets scored gains in today’s trading as coronavirus fears abated on optimistic remarks...