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At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 declined 3.01%.
The best performers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Kansai Electric Power Co Inc (TYO:9503), which rose 2.61% or 32.00 points to trade at 1,259.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings (TYO:8309) added 1.76% or 71.00 points to end at 4,108.00 and Chiba Bank Ltd (TYO:8331) was up 1.68% or 12.00 points to 726.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Softbank Group Corp. (TYO:9984), which fell 6.85% or 380.00 points to trade at 5,165.00 at the close. Kubota Corp. (TYO:6326) declined 6.26% or 153.50 points to end at 2,298.50 and Omron Cor (TYO:6645) was down 5.89% or 438.00 points to 7,003.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 2911 to 645 and 202 ended unchanged.
The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 5.19% to 21.27.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 2.17% or 2.62 to $118.05 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 2.14% or 2.61 to hit $119.40 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.63% or 11.80 to trade at $1,863.70 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was up 0.23% to 134.74, while EUR/JPY fell 0.08% to 141.22.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.39% at 104.42.
