{"id":219011,"date":"2025-12-31T01:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219011\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:03:11","slug":"japan-stocks-ride-ai-boom-rate-hikes-to-record-high-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219011\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan stocks ride AI boom, rate hikes to record high in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Manufacturing and finance resurgent as economy shifts to inflation from deflation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20251230N Nikkei Average\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Nikkei Stock Average ended the year at a record high of over\u00a050,000 on Dec. 30. (Photo by Shun Kato)<\/p>\n<p>AKIRA INUJIMA<\/p>\n<p>December 31, 2025 04:57 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese stocks had a banner year in 2025, lifted to new heights by the artificial intelligence boom, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s plans to bolster manufacturing and a reassessment\u00a0of the financial sector amid rising interest rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markets Manufacturing and finance resurgent as economy shifts to inflation from deflation The Nikkei Stock Average ended the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5808,220,218,219,598,13305,113587,61,60,582,2223,13304,113586,131,80],"class_list":["post-219011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-5808","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-boom","tag-high","tag-hikes","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-rate","tag-record","tag-ride","tag-stocks","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}