Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 declined 0.68%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were CyberAgent Inc (T:4751), which rose 4.08% or 290.0 points to trade at 7400.0 at the close. Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co Ltd (T:4506) added 2.76% or 42.0 points to end at 1565.0 and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (T:9432) was up 2.57% or 68.0 points to 2713.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (T:9007), which lost 6.02% or 195.0 points to trade at 3045.0 in late trade. Keio Corp. (T:9008) declined 5.25% or 420.0 points to end at 7580.0 and Canon Inc (T:7751) shed 4.93% or 97.5 points to 1880.5.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2438 to 1155 and 164 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 19.87.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 2.00% or 0.97 to $49.49 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 2.22% or 1.15 to hit $52.95 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 1.75% or 33.15 to trade at $1928.25 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.24% to 102.95, while EUR/JPY rose 0.00% to 126.25.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.34% at 89.585.