Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Power, Railway & Bus and Precision Instruments sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 1.68%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (TYO:7211), which rose 18.01% or 94.00 points to trade at 616.00 at the close. Konica Minolta, Inc. (TYO:4902) added 8.86% or 41.00 points to end at 504.00 and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (TYO:7011) was up 4.41% or 227.00 points to 5,369.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Z Holdings Corp (TYO:4689), which lost 14.18% or 56.20 points to trade at 340.00 in late trade. AGC Inc (TYO:5201) declined 9.33% or 435.00 points to end at 4,225.00 and Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (TYO:1332) shed 8.59% or 47.00 points to 500.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2531 to 980 and 274 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was down 0.73% to 21.88 a new 1-month low.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 2.14% or 1.89 to $90.06 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.92% or 1.82 to hit $96.49 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.13% or 18.35 to trade at $1,649.25 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.23% to 147.93, while EUR/JPY rose 0.00% to 144.59.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 112.50.