Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the , and sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the lost 0.73%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (TYO:), which rose 23.70% or 80.00 points to trade at 417.60 at the close. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (TYO:) added 19.65% or 80.00 points to end at 487.20 and Mazda Motor Corp (TYO:) was up 5.54% or 53.10 points to 1,011.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co Ltd (TYO:), which lost 4.46% or 27.00 points to trade at 579.00 in late trade. Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. (TYO:) declined 4.24% or 214.00 points to end at 4,832.00 and SoftBank Group Corp. (TYO:) shed 4.10% or 403.00 points to 9,434.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2044 to 1550 and 284 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was down 7.72% to 19.96.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.37% or 0.26 to $69.82 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.23% or 0.17 to hit $73.36 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.00% or 0.04 to trade at $2,661.96 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.02% to 153.45, while EUR/JPY rose 0.18% to 161.28.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 106.56.
