{"id":106347,"date":"2025-10-29T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106347\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:20:07","slug":"nikkei-225-breaks-51000-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106347\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkei 225 breaks 51,000 for the first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 stock index achieved a new record and broke 51,000 on Wednesday, only two days after it passed 50,000 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark rose at the open and crossed the 51,000 at around 10 a.m. As of 11:06 a.m., it was trading at 51,301.55.<\/p>\n<p>The stock rally in Tokyo tracked days of record-setting performance in Wall Street, with the three major indexes in the United States rising to all-time highs over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei 225 is up almost 32% over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The yen is trading at close to \u00a5152 to the dollar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 stock index achieved a new record and broke 51,000 on Wednesday, only two days after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,607,65,219,1775,111,139,4246,69,643,7677,584,76692,863],"class_list":["post-106347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-malaysia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nikkei","tag-nz","tag-stocks","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-tse","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}