Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Mining and Retail sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Nippon Yusen K.K (TYO:9101), which rose 8.01% or 350.00 points to trade at 4,721.00 at the close. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (TYO:9104) added 7.39% or 334.00 points to end at 4,851.00 and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (TYO:7003) was up 6.80% or 48.00 points to 754.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TYO:8035), which lost 4.93% or 1,245.00 points to trade at 24,010.00 in late trade. SoftBank Group Corp. (TYO:9984) declined 3.77% or 237.00 points to end at 6,056.00 and Advantest Corp. (TYO:6857) shed 3.77% or 181.00 points to 4,616.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 2817 to 922 and 153 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 2.11% to 17.46.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.98% or 0.71 to $73.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.75% or 0.59 to hit $78.84 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.58% or 11.75 to trade at $2,054.55 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was up 0.28% to 143.69, while EUR/JPY rose 0.37% to 157.08.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 102.13.