Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking, Paper & Pulp and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 fell 0.78%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Maruha Nichiro Corp (T:1333), which rose 3.42% or 145.0 points to trade at 4385.0 at the close. Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (T:6952) added 2.97% or 52.0 points to end at 1801.0 and Nippon Light Metal Holdings Co. (T:5703) was up 2.94% or 7.0 points to 245.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SUMCO Corp. (T:3436), which lost 4.17% or 97.0 points to trade at 2231.0 in late trade. The Japan Steel Works, Ltd. (T:5631) declined 3.34% or 98.0 points to end at 2840.0 and Softbank Corp. (T:9984) shed 2.80% or 242.0 points to 8399.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1937 to 1446 and 184 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was down 3.86% to 16.67.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.11% or 0.73 to $66.27 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 1.33% or 0.97 to hit $74.02 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.02% or 0.30 to trade at $1270.20 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was up 0.17% to 110.18, while EUR/JPY rose 0.64% to 128.45.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.33% at 94.23.