Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Electrical/Machinery, Finance & Investment and Automobiles & Parts sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 fell 0.22%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. (T:6504), which rose 8.28% or 300.0 points to trade at 3925.0 at the close. Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (T:4568) added 5.91% or 306.0 points to end at 5481.0 and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (T:9107) was up 5.25% or 80.5 points to 1612.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Advantest Corp. (T:6857), which lost 8.85% or 305.0 points to trade at 3140.0 in late trade. Mitsubishi Logistics Corp. (T:9301) declined 4.41% or 137.0 points to end at 2968.0 and DeNA Co Ltd (T:2432) shed 3.88% or 70.0 points to 1735.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2089 to 1402 and 235 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 5.40% to 16.40.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.43% or 0.28 to $64.93 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.17% or 0.13 to hit $74.22 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.35% or 4.45 to trade at $1284.15 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was up 0.00% to 111.62, while EUR/JPY rose 0.13% to 124.39.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 97.817.