Once again reluctant to lower

The Nikkei Stock Average fell back.

Reports that the Biden administration plans to raise capital gains taxation on the wealthy,
following the downward trend in U.S. stocks on the 22nd, there was a brief dip to 28,770 yen (down 417 yen from the previous day) in early morning trading.

Afterward, as buying on dips narrowed the declines, it temporarily recovered to 28,935 yen (down 152 yen), but then softened.

It continued to struggle lower toward the close.

The Mothers Index also fell back.

There were moments when it rose on bargain-hunting, but it was sold toward the close.

Nikkei Stock Average 29,020.63 -167.54 -0.57% (close; down for the first time in two sessions)

25-day moving average deviation rate: -1.22%

Dow Jones CFD: 33,802 -14 -0.14%

WTI Crude Oil Near Month: 61.72 +1.00%

Shanghai Composite Index: 3,466.97 +2.50 +0.07%

Hong Kong Hang Seng Index: 28,922.00 +210.50 +0.70%

SQ Value: 29,909 yen 73 sen (4/9) 29,282 yen 41 sen (March Major SQ)

TOPIX: 1,914.98 -7.52 -0.39% (down for the first time in two sessions)

Foreign exchange: 1 USD = 107.950 yen; 1 EUR = 129.819 yen; Bitcoin 5,254.203 -10.92%

TSE Mothers: 1,212.23 -14.53 -1.18% (down for the first time in two sessions)

TSE JASDAQ Average: 3,901.69 -10.96 -0.28% (down for the first time in two sessions)

TSE 2nd Section Index: 7,435.51 -28.73 -0.38% (down for the first time in two sessions)

TSE First Section trading volume was 955.01 million shares, with a turnover of 2,004.4 billion yen.

The number of advancing issues on the TSE First Section was 708 (32%), declining issues were 1,376 (62%), and 106 (4%) were unchanged.

In the industry ranking, 11 sectors rose and 22 fell.

Top gainers included Aviation, Land Transport, Rubber Products, Real Estate, Electric & Gas, Other Finance, Food and so on...

Top decliners included Steel, Machinery, Petroleum & Coal Products, Nonferrous Metals, Transportation Equipment, Metal Products, Electrical Equipment, and so on...

Top gainers on the TSE First Section include Kimoto <7908> [currently 289 yen, +47 yen], Hokushin <7897> [currently 150 yen, +21 yen]

Eight-レット <3969> [currently 2,737 yen, +370 yen] SigmaCis <6088> [currently 2,108 yen, +209 yen]

Top decliners include gumi <3903> [currently 1,165 yen, -197 yen], Monex Group <8698> [currently 801 yen, -100 yen]

RPA <6572> [currently 785 yen, -78 yen], Celis <3696> [currently 3,775 yen, -310 yen]

Three megabanks Mitsubishi UFJ <8306> [currently 572.2 yen, +1.8 yen], Mizuho <8411> [currently 1,512.5 yen, +2.5 yen]

Sumitomo Mitsui <8316> [currently 3,762 yen, +2 yen]

Nomura <8604> [currently 574.5 yen, +3.4 yen], Daiwa <8601> [currently 555.4 yen, -4.6 yen]

SoftBank Group <9984> [currently 10,005 yen, -95 yen], Toyota <7203> [currently 8,277 yen, -91 yen]

Sony <6758> [currently 11,840 yen, +120 yen], Fujifilm <4901> [currently 7,000 yen, -57 yen], Takeda <4502> [currently 3,683.0 yen, -25.0 yen]

Nikkei Leveraged <1570> [currently 32,250 yen, -350 yen], Nikkei Double Inverse <1357> [currently 419 yen, +5 yen]

International VIX <1552> [currently 3,575 yen, +165 yen], NY Dow Bear <2041> [currently 3,095 yen, +35 yen]

WTI Crude Oil ETF <1671> [currently 1,276 yen, +12 yen]

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