{"id":272946,"date":"2026-02-07T23:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:04:33","slug":"japanese-shares-recover-as-election-looms-tradingview-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272946\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Shares Recover as Election Looms \u2014 TradingView News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Nikkei 225 rose 0.5% to around 54,070, while the broader Topix Index gained 0.7% to 3,678 on Friday, reversing earlier losses as investors focused on this weekend\u2019s national election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called the snap vote to secure backing for increased spending and potential tax cuts, with her ruling coalition widely expected to win decisively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Markets also navigated heightened volatility, as tech stocks, precious metals, and cryptocurrencies sold off earlier in the Asian session before stabilizing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Japanese tech shares led the recovery, with gains from SoftBank Group (1.9%), Advantest (0.8%), Disco Corp (2.5%), Fujikura (3.2%), and Lasertec (4.3%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Both benchmark indexes are positioned to finish the week higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nikkei 225 rose 0.5% to around 54,070, while the broader Topix Index gained 0.7% to 3,678 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-272946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272946","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=272946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}