Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 declined 0.75%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Tokyo Electron Ltd. (T:8035), which rose 4.90% or 1295.0 points to trade at 27735.0 at the close. SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc. (T:9412) added 2.25% or 9.0 points to end at 409.0 and Advantest Corp. (T:6857) was up 1.96% or 120.0 points to 6240.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Suzuki Motor Corp. (T:7269), which lost 4.51% or 165.0 points to trade at 3492.0 in late trade. Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co Ltd (T:4506) declined 4.03% or 60.0 points to end at 1430.0 and Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (T:7911) shed 3.95% or 71.0 points to 1726.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2818 to 719 and 142 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 32.42.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 2.62% or 1.03 to $40.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 2.52% or 1.04 to hit $42.31 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.32% or 5.85 to trade at $1806.35 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.25% to 107.64, while EUR/JPY fell 0.27% to 120.88.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.00% at 97.347.