Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 1.97%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Chiyoda Corp. (T:6366), which rose 1.32% or 4.0 points to trade at 308.0 at the close. Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. (T:7735) added 0.79% or 40.0 points to end at 5120.0 and Sumitomo Realty & Development Co. (T:8830) was up 0.03% or 1.0 points to 3999.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd (T:5019), which lost 5.05% or 160.0 points to trade at 3010.0 in late trade. Konica Minolta, Inc. (T:4902) declined 4.96% or 54.0 points to end at 1034.0 and Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. (T:5901) shed 4.91% or 99.0 points to 1919.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 3272 to 342 and 103 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0.00% to 13.43.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.21% or 0.12 to $56.66 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $63.66 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.12% or 1.65 to trade at $1421.65 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.18% to 107.75, while EUR/JPY fell 0.05% to 121.08.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 96.757.