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Overseas US stock markets on the weekend rose for all three indices.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index reached new highs.
The PPI (final demand for goods and services) for March released in the morning rose 1.0% from the previous month and 4.2% year over year, both beating market expectations.
The year-on-year increase was the highest since September 2011.
Market-wide volume across the three markets (NYSE, MKT, and NASDAQ exchange) was about 8.69 billion shares, versus the 20-day moving average of about 11.71 billion shares.
On a weekly basis, the Dow rose 2.0% and finished the week higher for the third consecutive week (up 3.6% cumulatively),
the NASDAQ Composite rose 3.1% for the week, also up for the third straight week (up 5.8% cumulatively), and the S&P 500 index rose 2.7% for the week, also up for the third straight week (up 5.5% cumulatively).
In the Tokyo stock market on the 9th, the Nikkei Stock Average (+0.20%) rose for the first time in two days but ended at a low.
The TOPIX (+0.39%) also rose for the first time in two days.
The TSE Mothers (+1.63%), the Nikkei JASDAQ Average (+0.23%), and the TSE Second Section (+0.21%) all finished higher for the first time in two days.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section trading volume was 1,123.38 million shares, and the trading value was 2,755.5 billion yen.
The number of advancing issues on the First Section was 1,293 (59%), the number of declining issues was 792 (36%), and unchanged were 105 (4%).
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