Investing.com – Japan equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Gas & Water, Power and Marine Transport sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 rose 1.75%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Fujikura Ltd. (TYO:5803), which rose 15.86% or 85.00 points to trade at 621.00 at the close. Denso Corp. (TYO:6902) added 9.72% or 705.00 points to end at 7,957.00 and Tokuyama Corp. (TYO:4043) was up 7.44% or 120.00 points to 1,733.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Konica Minolta, Inc. (TYO:4902), which lost 6.20% or 30.00 points to trade at 454.00 in late trade. Hitachi Construction Machinery Co (TYO:6305) declined 4.83% or 150.00 points to end at 2,955.00 and Keisei Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (TYO:9009) shed 4.77% or 160.00 points to 3,195.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 2505 to 1050 and 208 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was down 2.88% to 26.61.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.29% or 0.30 to $101.72 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.37% or 0.39 to hit $104.56 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.15% or 2.74 to trade at $1,885.96 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was up 1.48% to 130.32, while EUR/JPY rose 1.31% to 137.32.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 103.25.