Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 declined 0.53%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (T:1332), which rose 4.04% or 27.0 points to trade at 696.0 at the close. Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. (T:9983) added 2.67% or 1740.0 points to end at 66830.0 and Otsuka Holdings Ltd (T:4578) was up 2.51% or 93.0 points to 3792.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included IHI Corp. (T:7013), which lost 5.55% or 147.0 points to trade at 2502.0 in late trade. Yaskawa Electric Corp. (T:6506) declined 4.94% or 190.0 points to end at 3660.0 and Tokuyama Corp. (T:4043) shed 4.78% or 144.0 points to 2871.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1815 to 1687 and 224 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0.00% to 15.04 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.34% or 0.19 to $56.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.27% or 0.17 to hit $62.57 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 1.40% or 19.75 to trade at $1427.75 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.18% to 107.69, while EUR/JPY fell 0.26% to 121.41.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 96.393.