Investing.com – Japan equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 gained 1.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Nichirei Corp. (T:2871), which rose 6.87% or 182.0 points to trade at 2831.0 at the close. Chiyoda Corp. (T:6366) added 6.06% or 20.0 points to end at 350.0 and Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (T:1332) was up 5.82% or 34.0 points to 618.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NTT Data Corp. (T:9613), which lost 7.00% or 110.0 points to trade at 1462.0 in late trade. Tobu Railway Co., Ltd. (T:9001) declined 3.61% or 140.0 points to end at 3735.0 and Kao Corp. (T:4452) shed 2.07% or 181.0 points to 8581.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 2580 to 974 and 219 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0.00% to 14.88.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.38% or 0.19 to $49.80 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.57% or 0.31 to hit $54.27 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.62% or 9.65 to trade at $1565.15 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.16% to 109.33, while EUR/JPY fell 0.20% to 120.69.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 97.845.