Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 fell 1.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Familymart Ltd (T:8028), which rose 7.06% or 152.0 points to trade at 2306.0 at the close. Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (T:6952) added 1.81% or 33.0 points to end at 1859.0 and Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (T:4568) was up 1.51% or 126.0 points to 8459.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd. (T:7762), which lost 5.37% or 18.0 points to trade at 317.0 in late trade. Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (T:8801) declined 5.08% or 91.5 points to end at 1710.0 and Tokyu Fudosan (T:3289) shed 5.04% or 23.0 points to 433.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 3014 to 547 and 132 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 23.32.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 1.56% or 0.62 to $39.00 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 1.30% or 0.55 to hit $41.80 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.09% or 1.65 to trade at $1805.45 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.31% to 106.86, while EUR/JPY fell 0.49% to 120.36.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 96.812.