Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Automobiles & Parts, Gas & Water and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 declined 0.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Denki Kagaku Kogyo K.K. (T:4061), which rose 4.61% or 19.0 points to trade at 431.0 at the close. Ube Industries, Ltd. (T:4208) added 2.50% or 5.0 points to end at 205.0 and Komatsu Ltd. (T:6301) was up 2.11% or 40.5 points to 1958.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Toshiba Corp. (T:6502), which lost 7.01% or 15.7 points to trade at 208.3 in late trade. Tokuyama Corp. (T:4043) declined 5.65% or 10.0 points to end at 167.0 and Yaskawa Electric Corp. (T:6506) shed 5.01% or 70.0 points to 1326.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1445 to 357 and 89 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 5.58% to 29.31.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.13% or 0.43 to $37.47 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 1.25% or 0.51 to hit $40.33 a barrel, while the April Gold contract rose 0.53% or 6.70 to trade at $1270.70 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.34% to 113.06, while EUR/JPY fell 0.28% to 124.58.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 97.09.