Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 0.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. (T:9983), which rose 4.27% or 3010.0 points to trade at 73430.0 at the close. Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (T:9501) added 2.80% or 8.0 points to end at 294.0 and Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (T:4901) was up 2.51% or 134.0 points to 5466.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. (T:7735), which lost 4.23% or 260.0 points to trade at 5890.0 in late trade. Fujikura Ltd. (T:5803) declined 3.79% or 11.0 points to end at 279.0 and Konami Corp. (T:9766) shed 3.45% or 155.0 points to 4340.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2685 to 827 and 179 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 19.29.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.98% or 0.40 to $40.56 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.07% or 0.46 to hit $42.70 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.09% or 1.75 to trade at $1910.65 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.15% to 105.28, while EUR/JPY fell 0.11% to 123.29.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 93.767.