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 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (T:4568), which rose 8.52% or 792.0 points to trade at 10085.0 at the close. Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (T:7911) added 5.86% or 102.0 points to end at 1843.0 and Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (T:4519) was up 5.76% or 865.0 points to 15890.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (T:7201), which lost 10.79% or 48.5 points to trade at 400.9 in late trade. Nikon Corp. (T:7731) declined 9.09% or 99.0 points to end at 990.0 and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (T:7211) shed 8.98% or 30.0 points to 304.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2117 to 1509 and 155 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 26.99.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 2.46% or 0.83 to $32.88 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.86% or 0.67 to hit $35.36 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.34% or 5.90 to trade at $1719.20 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.42% to 107.17, while EUR/JPY fell 0.16% to 119.05.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 98.222.