Japan Market Outlook - 13 August 2021 on Thursday Even as the spread of the delta variant of the Rakuten Group, a provider of mobile phone services and coronavirus continues to stifle economic activity in nearly online shopping malls, sank 6.4 percent after missing 30 cities across the country, the Japanese stock market is profit projections. modestly higher extending gains in the previous four sessions, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 moving above Sumco was down 2.7 percent, Advantest 2.2 percent, the 28,100 level. and Screen Holdings was down 1.8 percent. while Toshiba dropped 4.1 percent after announcing After reaching a high of 28,279.80 earlier, the Nikkei 225 unimpressive results. Index is up 55.10 points, or 0.20 percent, to 28,125.61. Japanese stocks concluded the day with a huge gain. On Thursday, the US dollar is trading in the lower 110 yen region in the currency market. The Nikkei 225 index, which is heavily weighted in technology, lost 0.20 percent to 28,015.02, with early In economic news, Japan's producer prices rose 5.6 gains stifled by resistance from a downward-sloping trendline around 28,270. percent year over year in July. In July, the export price index increased by 0.5 percent while the import index The broader Topix index fared better, finishing 0.03 was 1.8 percent month over month. percent lower at 1,953.55. Japan athletes won a total of 58 medals, including 27 Advantest and Tokyo Electron are both down more than gold, in the Olympics, which finished on Sunday. 1% in the tech sector, while Screen Holdings is down 0.4 percent. In Japan, new covid cases on 12th august 2021 were reported to 15792. SoftBank's stock dropped 0.9 percent to a nine-month low. SMC Corp gained 3.7 percent after increasing its year operating profit prediction by 15.6 percent.

Top Gainers Top Losers

Company Last Price Change% Company Last Price Change%

Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. ¥6,396.00 10.81% Oki Electric Industry ¥2,942.00 -6.45% Co. Ltd.

JFE Holdings Inc. ¥1,590.00 5.09% Yamato Holdings Co. ¥619.00 -3.73% Ltd.

Trend Micro Inc. ¥5,820.00 3.01% Fujikura Ltd. ¥9,410.00 -3.29%

NEXON Co. Ltd. ¥2,273.00 2.85% Advantest Corp. ¥2,640.00 -2.94%

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ¥4,895.00 2.19% Ltd. Japan Steel Works Ltd. ¥9,830.00 -2.77% Japan Market Outlook - 13 August 2021

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