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 fell 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Hitachi Ltd (T:6501), which rose 2.68% or 92.0 points to trade at 3523.0 at the close. NTT Data Corp. (T:9613) added 2.41% or 30.0 points to end at 1277.0 and Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. (T:7735) was up 2.27% or 120.0 points to 5410.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pacific Metals Co., Ltd. (T:5541), which lost 4.45% or 72.0 points to trade at 1546.0 in late trade. Sumitomo Realty & Development Co. (T:8830) declined 4.36% or 130.0 points to end at 2853.5 and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (T:7003) shed 3.88% or 18.0 points to 446.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2224 to 1296 and 161 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 23.11.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.86% or 0.35 to $40.40 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.99% or 0.43 to hit $42.94 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.06% or 1.05 to trade at $1799.25 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.12% to 107.14, while EUR/JPY fell 0.04% to 122.05.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 96.215.