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 fell 0.72%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. (T:4021), which rose 4.13% or 250.0 points to trade at 6310.0 at the close. Taiheiyo Cement Corp. (T:5233) added 3.68% or 95.0 points to end at 2680.0 and Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. (T:6976) was up 3.40% or 190.0 points to 5780.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (T:9007), which lost 5.27% or 180.0 points to trade at 3235.0 in late trade. Keisei Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (T:9009) declined 4.23% or 165.0 points to end at 3735.0 and Inpex Corp. (T:1605) shed 4.18% or 33.0 points to 757.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2531 to 1025 and 188 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 23.63.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.37% or 0.83 to $59.69 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 1.03% or 0.66 to hit $63.27 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.40% or 7.15 to trade at $1767.85 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.02% to 105.64, while EUR/JPY rose 0.09% to 127.83.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 90.507.