Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Transport and Railway & Bus sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 fell 0.98%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were T&D Holdings, Inc. (TYO:8795), which rose 3.97% or 84.50 points to trade at 2,212.00 at the close. Resona Holdings, Inc. (TYO:8308) added 3.88% or 26.80 points to end at 718.00 and Rakuten Inc (TYO:4755) was up 3.63% or 18.10 points to 516.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. (TYO:4568), which lost 14.81% or 678.00 points to trade at 3,900.00 in late trade. Nisshin Seifun Group Inc. (TYO:2002) declined 3.76% or 66.50 points to end at 1,702.50 and Astellas Pharma Inc. (TYO:4503) shed 2.84% or 61.00 points to 2,083.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1984 to 1622 and 254 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 2.41% to 19.57.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.82% or 0.57 to $70.36 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.76% or 0.57 to hit $75.22 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.26% or 4.95 to trade at $1,934.45 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.11% to 144.49, while EUR/JPY fell 0.18% to 157.61.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 102.64.