The Nikkei 225 Future is trading at 23,433.00 up with +0.10% percent or +23.00 point.The Nifty Future is trading at 12,177.80 up with +0.57% percent or +69.20 point. The Hang Seng Future is trading at 26,951.00 with a loss of -0.01% percent or -3.00 point.
TODAY’S FACTORS AND EVENTS
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Panasonic Corp (T:6752), which rose 2.82% or 27.7 points to trade at 1009.0 at the close. IHI Corp. (T:7013) added 2.32% or 59.0 points to end at 2599.0 and Rakuten Inc (T:4755) was up 2.25% or 21.0 points to 956.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included The Japan Steel Works, Ltd. (T:5631), which lost 2.99% or 70.0 points to trade at 2275.0 in late trade. NTT Data Corp. (T:9613) declined 2.54% or 39.0 points to end at 1496.0 and Yaskawa Electric Corp. (T:6506) shed 2.44% or 100.0 points to 4005.0.
WORLD MARKETS
For the day the Dow is trading at 28,164.00 up with +0.35% percent or +97.53 point. The S&P 500 is trading at 3,153.63 up with +0.42% percent or +13.11 point. The Nasdaq Composite is trading at 8,705.18 up with +0.66% percent or +57.24 point.
In other parts of world, Japan’s Nikkei 225 is trading at 23,409.14 with a loss of –0.12% percent or –28.63 point. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is trading at 26,910.86 with a loss of –0.16% percent or –43.14 point. China’s Shanghai Composite is trading at 2,889.69 with a loss of –0.47% percent or –13.50 point. India’s BSE Sensex is trading at 41,079.66 up with +0.14% percent or +59.05 point at 12:15 PM.