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 lost 2.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Rakuten Inc (T:4755), which rose 3.24% or 35.0 points to trade at 1116.0 at the close. Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (T:5214) added 1.62% or 43.0 points to end at 2698.0 and Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. (T:5901) was up 1.52% or 20.0 points to 1339.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Konami Corp. (T:9766), which lost 8.39% or 590.0 points to trade at 6440.0 in late trade. Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (T:4183) declined 5.98% or 225.0 points to end at 3540.0 and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (T:4005) shed 5.30% or 31.0 points to 554.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 3077 to 543 and 133 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 22.40.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.27% or 0.20 to $74.83 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.26% or 0.20 to hit $78.11 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.16% or 2.85 to trade at $1754.15 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.05% to 111.21, while EUR/JPY fell 0.01% to 128.85.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 94.282.