Tokyo (awp / dpa) – The Tokyo Stock Exchange was down slightly on Wednesday morning after the scattered Wall Street close the day before, with trading volume looking weak for the penultimate session of the year in the Japanese place.
The flagship Nikkei index dropped 0.25% to 28.995.25 points around 01:00 GMT and the extended Topix index fell 0.17% to 2.001.67 points.
“The Tokyo market is expected to be mixed, with technology and exporting stocks at risk of exposure to profit taking” and cyclical stocks like steel or chemicals popular with bargain-seeking investors, Okasan Online commented. Securities in a note.
On the side of values
LOW TECH: some Japanese stocks linked to semiconductors were dominated by sell orders in the wake of the decline of the Nasdaq index of New York, with strong technological coloring: Renesas lost 1.04% to 1,415 yen, Tokyo Electron 0.52% to 66,440 yen and Screen Holdings 0.73% to 12,230 yen.
On the currency and oil side
The yen was stable against the dollar, at a rate of one dollar against 114.83 yen at around 1:00 a.m. GMT against 114.82 yen on Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. GMT.
The Japanese currency also did not move against the euro, which was worth 129.88 yen, against 129.87 yen the day before.
A euro was also traded for 1.1311 dollars, against 1.1310 dollars on Tuesday.
Oil continued to rise: around 1:00 GMT the price of a barrel of US crude WTI rose 0.32% to 76.22 dollars.
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