{"id":73489,"date":"2025-08-16T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73489\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:45:19","slug":"japans-nikkei-ends-at-record-high-as-yen-weakens-economy-shows-resilience-tradingview-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73489\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Nikkei ends at record high as yen weakens, economy shows resilience \u2014 TradingView News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan’s Nikkei closed at an all-time high on Friday, as the yen weakened and data showed the nation’s economy was surprisingly resilient.<\/p>\n

The Nikkei 225 Index \"\"\/NI225<\/a> accelerated gains in the afternoon session, surging 1.7% to end at a record peak of 43,378.31. It touched an intraday record high of 43,451.46 earlier in the week. The broader Topix jumped 1.6% to 3,107.68, also a record closing level.<\/p>\n

The overnight drop in yen provided support to exporters’ shares, while data released on Friday showed Japan’s economy expanded at an annualised rate of 1% in the April-June quarter, beating forecasts. Analysts expect the full impact of U.S. tariffs on growth to emerge later.<\/p>\n

Rising U.S. Treasury yields and comments from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday that the Bank of Japan will likely be raising interest rates were factors behind a jump in financial shares, Nomura Securities strategist Wataru Akiyama said.<\/p>\n

“Expectations for improved performance due to rising domestic interest rates are acting as a tailwind, leading to relatively large increases in bank and insurance company shares today,” he said.<\/p>\n

Banks were the biggest gainers in the Topix, with a sub-index of lenders TTOPIXB<\/a> climbing 4.7% to its highest level since May 2006. Shares of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group \"\"\/8306<\/a> rose 6%, marking an eighth consecutive session of gains and hitting a record high.<\/p>\n

There were 177 advancers on the Nikkei index against 46 decliners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan’s Nikkei closed at an all-time high on Friday, as the yen weakened and data showed the nation’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-73489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}