Investing.com – Japan equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 added 2.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Shionogi & Co., Ltd. (T:4507), which rose 5.30% or 409.0 points to trade at 8121.0 at the close. Advantest Corp. (T:6857) added 4.61% or 470.0 points to end at 10670.0 and Tokyo Electron Ltd. (T:8035) was up 4.40% or 2620.0 points to 62220.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Shinsei Bank, Ltd. (T:8303), which lost 1.69% or 31.0 points to trade at 1800.0 in late trade. Mitsubishi Materials Corp. (T:5711) declined 1.23% or 24.0 points to end at 1920.0 and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (T:5801) shed 0.77% or 17.0 points to 2195.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 2523 to 1046 and 224 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 24.56.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 1.21% or 0.83 to $69.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.87% or 0.62 to hit $72.14 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.18% or 3.15 to trade at $1791.45 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was up 0.14% to 113.74, while EUR/JPY rose 0.23% to 128.36.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 96.455.