The Eastern market is greatly reduced

(RTTNews) – Extending losses in previous sessions, the Eastern market is critically lower on Thursday, following mixed signals from Wall Avenue overnight. The Nikkei 225 is successfully falling below the 39,700 level, with weakness across most sectors led by index heavyweights, exporters and technology stocks.

The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 311.65 points, or 0.78 percent, to 39,669.41, after earlier hitting a low of 39,607.06. Eastern stocks ended moderately lower on Wednesday.

Market heavyweight SoftBank Community is losing nearly 1 percent, while operator Uniqlo Swiftly Retailing is down 0.3 percent. Among automakers, Toyota is down nearly 2 percent, while Honda is down 1.5 percent.

In tech condominiums, Advantest is shedding more than 1 percent, while Show cloak cloak Holdings and Tokyo Electron are down nearly 2 percent each.

In the banking sector, Mizuho Financial and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial fell between 0.1 percent and 0.4 percent, while Sumitomo Mitsui Financial shed nearly 1 percent.

Among the best-known exporters, Panasonic is losing more than 2 percent, Mitsubishi Electrical more than 1 percent, and Sony 0.4 percent. Canon is flat.

Among the many notable losers, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha is shedding more than 5 percent, Mitsubishi Motors is down nearly 5 percent, while Nippon Yusen Okay.Okay., Nissan Motor, Mazda Motor, Lasertec and Mitsui OSOkay. The lines are down more than 4 percent each. Omron, Hino Motors and ZOZO each fell more than 3 percent, while Mitsui & Co. and Subaru each slipped nearly 3 percent.

In contrast, Ebara gains almost 3 percent.

In the foreign exchange market, the US dollar is trading within a lower 158 yen on Thursday.

On Wall Avenue, stocks confirmed a lack of direction in full trading on Wednesday, after a pullback seen on Tuesday’s stock market. The best-known averages spent the day lower and continued above the unchanged line before finally closing narrowly mixed.

While the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 10.80 points, or 0.1 percent, to 19,478.87, the Dow rose 106.84 points, or 0.3 percent, to 42,635.20 and the S&P 500 added 9.22 points, or 0. 2 percent to 5,918.25.

The most well-known European stock exchanges further brightened the day. While the U.Okay index. The FTSE 100 rose by 0.1 percent, the German DAX index fell by 0.1 percent, and the French CAC 40 index by 0.5 percent.

Low oil prices eased on Wednesday as gasoline inventories and a stronger dollar weighed on oil prices. West Texas Intermediate Low crude futures for February were down $0.93, or 1.25 percent, at $73.32 a barrel.

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