Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Fishery and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 fell 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Sapporo Holdings Ltd. (TYO:2501), which rose 4.90% or 330.00 points to trade at 7,068.00 at the close. Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. (TYO:6504) added 4.56% or 314.00 points to end at 7,200.00 and Yokogawa Electric Corp. (TYO:6841) was up 2.27% or 67.00 points to 3,019.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included T&D Holdings, Inc. (TYO:8795), which lost 2.89% or 70.00 points to trade at 2,352.00 in late trade. Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. (TYO:5706) declined 2.63% or 125.00 points to end at 4,632.00 and SUMCO Corp. (TYO:3436) shed 2.27% or 56.00 points to 2,414.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2237 to 1402 and 253 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 5.95% to 21.90.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.24% or 0.18 to $74.94 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.24% or 0.19 to hit $80.25 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.47% or 9.45 to trade at $2,031.65 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.06% to 148.00, while EUR/JPY rose 0.16% to 161.44.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.19% at 102.92.