The afternoon session is at a stalemate
Nikkei Stock Average futures show a slight rebound.
With little in the way of fresh cues, trading lacked a clear direction, hovering around the previous close (29,620 yen).
In the morning, selling led, but buying in stock index futures came in intermittently, turning the market higher.
At one point up 166 yen from the previous day, to 29,787 yen, the gains narrowed and it even dipped into negative territory.
The afternoon session remained range-bound…
The Mothers Index declined but the losses narrowed toward the close.
Nikkei Stock Average 29,642.69 +21.70 +0.07% (close; rebound for the first time in 2 days)
25-day moving average deviation +0.33%
Dow Jones CFD 33,810 +79 +0.23%
WTI Crude Oil (front month) 63.24 +3.55%
Shanghai Composite Index 3,391.13 -25.74 -0.75%
Hong Kong Hang Seng Index 28,672.62 -205.38 -0.71%
SQ value: 29,909.73 (April 9) 29,282.41 (March major SQ)
TOPIX 1,959.13 +6.95 +0.36% (rebound for the first time in 2 days)
Foreign exchange: 1 USD = 108.924 JPY 1 EUR = 130.455 JPY Bitcoin 6907.230 -1.50%
TSE Mothers Index 1,228.14 -7.01 -0.57% (decline for the first time in 3 days)
Nikkei JASDAQ Average 3,948.17 +2.27 +0.06% (three consecutive days of gains)
TSE Second Section Index 7,513.90 +4.85 +0.06% (rebound for the first time in 2 days)
Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section trading volume totaled tens of billions of shares, and turnover was trillions of yen.
The number of advancing, declining, and unchanged issues on the First Section is recorded.
In the by-sector rankings, 28 sectors advanced and 5 sectors declined.
Among the best gainers were: shipping, mining, petroleum and coal products, nonferrous metals, steel, banks, air transport, …
Among the decliners were: other products, precision equipment, electrical equipment, machinery, warehousing and logistics-related stocks.
Top First Section gainers include RPA 6572 [currently 768 yen +99 yen], Kewin Foods 2933 [currently 1567 yen +189 yen]
BayCurrent 6532 [currently 28360 yen +3350 yen], Nihon Denshi 6951 [currently 5870 yen +680 yen]
Top decliners include Vector 6058 [currently 1021 yen -214 yen], Terrace Sky 3915 [currently 2873 yen -527 yen]
Kita no Tatsujin 2930 [currently 548 yen -81 yen], Tokyo Base 3415 [currently 683 yen -73 yen]
Three megabanks Mitsubishi UFJ 8306 [currently 591.6 yen +7.8 yen], Mizuho 8411 [currently 1560.0 yen +21.5 yen]
Sumitomo Mitsui 8316 [currently 3910 yen +61 yen]
Nomura 8604 [currently 582.5 yen +11.5 yen], Daiwa 8601 [currently 582.9 yen +4.7 yen]
SoftBank Group 9984 [currently 10150 yen +190 yen], Toyota 7203 [currently 8564 yen +79 yen]
Sony 6758 [currently 12205 yen +15 yen], Fuji Film 4901 [currently 6956 yen -19 yen], Takeda 4502 [currently 3715 yen +14 yen]
Nikkei Leverage 1570 [currently 33650 yen -50 yen] Nikkei 2x Inverse 1357 [currently 402 yen -2 yen]
International VIX 1552 [currently 3570 yen +40 yen] Dow Bear 2041 [currently 3070 yen -10 yen]
WTI Crude Oil ETF 1671 [currently 1321 yen +47 yen]
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