TOKYO -- Nikkei and JPX Market Innovation & Research will remove Benefit One, an employee benefits provider in Japan, from the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 on May 7 due to the company being designated as ...

TOKYO -- Nikkei will remove Tokyo-based chipmaking materials producer JSR from its Nikkei Semiconductor Stock Index on May 1, the company said on Wednesday. The index provider said in a statement ...

Asian stocks have tumbled, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 3.5% on heavy selling of semiconductor-related shares and other ...

Nvidia leaped 4.4%, and Alphabet climbed 1.4% as Treasury yields stabilized in the bond market. Last week, a jump in yields ...

Stocks in the Asia-Pacific region rose Monday, April 1. Japan's Nikkei 225 Index NIK, -1.40% fell 1.4% to 39,803.09, while the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was closed. Of the Nikkei 225 Index ...

nikkei heads north MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.2%, after snapping a five-week winning streak with a slight drop last week.

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TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average ended higher on Friday, driven by chip-related heavyweights, and posted a record fiscal-year gain in terms of points amid heavy foreign buying.

Asia-Pacific stocks mostly decreased Monday, March 25, with shares in Hong Kong declining for the second day. Also in Japan, metalworking machinery company Japan Steel Works 5631, -2.10% saw the ...

As Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average tests 1989 highs, South Korea is experiencing a bull market in envy. Japan’s equities boom reflects perceptions that Asia’s second-biggest economy is ...

TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average logged the biggest rise ever on an absolute basis for the fiscal year ended on Friday, rallying 12,328 points. The index hit successive ...