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The Nikkei 225, or the Nikkei Stock Average (Japanese: 日経平均株価, Hepburn: Nikkei heikin kabuka), more commonly called the Nikkei or the Nikkei index [1] [2] (/ ˈ n ɪ k eɪ, ˈ n iː-, n ɪ ˈ k eɪ /), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It is a price-weighted index, operating in the Japanese Yen (JP¥), and ...
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index fell 1.8% following a holiday on Monday, but indexes were much stronger in China where stocks rose 1.8% in Hong Kong and 2.5% in Shanghai. ... Crude oil prices fell to ...
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 2.1% in morning trading to 38,337.23, with the yen hovering at 34-year lows during the week. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index rose 0.3% to 7,705.70 following ...
Japan’s Nikkei 225 helped start Monday by plunging 12.4% for its worst day since the Black Monday crash of 1987. ... South Korea’s Kospi index careened 8.8% lower, stock markets across Europe ...
The main indices tracking the stock market of TSE are the Nikkei 225 index of companies selected by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japan's largest business newspaper), the TOPIX index based on the share prices of Prime companies, and the J30 index of large industrial companies maintained by Japan's major broadsheet newspapers.
Interest rates and the strength of the economy are usually the two main levers that set prices for stocks. ... Japan’s Nikkei 225 slumped 4.8% on worries the country’s incoming prime minister ...
Adjustment Factor = Index specific constant "Z" / (Number of shares of the stock * Adjusted stock market value before rebalancing) A stock trading at $100 will thus be making up 10 times more of the total index compared to a stock trading at $10. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nikkei 225 are examples of price-weighted stock market indexes.
Wall Street appears poised to return to less chaotic trading Tuesday after a huge sell-off to start the week. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index soared more than 10%, regaining almost all of the ...