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At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 added 0.79% to hit a new 1-month high.
The best performers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (T:5801), which rose 16.04% or 331.0 points to trade at 2395.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Sony Financial Holdings Inc. (T:8729) added 7.59% or 183.0 points to end at 2595.0 and Fujikura Ltd. (T:5803) was up 6.07% or 19.0 points to 332.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Denki Kagaku Kogyo K.K. (T:4061), which fell 3.83% or 104.0 points to trade at 2613.0 at the close. Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (T:4901) declined 2.57% or 130.0 points to end at 4936.0 and Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. (T:8766) was down 2.43% or 112.0 points to 4498.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 2475 to 1107 and 193 ended unchanged.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was unchanged 0% to 30.67.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.72% or 0.23 to $31.73 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.49% or 0.17 to hit $34.48 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.50% or 8.80 to trade at $1754.40 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.04% to 107.64, while EUR/JPY rose 0.18% to 117.81.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 99.455.
