{"id":43158,"date":"2025-01-20T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/?p=43158"},"modified":"2025-01-20T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:47:00","slug":"asian-markets-nikkei-surges-1-29-in-early-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/east-asia\/japan\/asian-markets-nikkei-surges-1-29-in-early-trade\/43158\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian markets: Nikkei surges 1.29% in early trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 11:44 a.m. local time in Japan, the Nikkei Index reflected a positive start to the trading day, marking a <strong>1.29% increase<\/strong> with a value of <strong>38,948.42 JPY<\/strong>, gaining <strong>497.18 points<\/strong> since the previous close. Opening at <strong>38,671.77 JPY<\/strong>, the index has traded within the range of <strong>38,671.77 to 39,032.93 JPY<\/strong> so far.<\/p>\n<p>In the broader perspective, the index has seen a one-day gain of 1.29%, while maintaining a 5-day decline of 0.16%. Over six months, the index has dropped 0.99%, and its year-to-date performance remains down by 2.50%. However, the one-year growth of <strong>8.45%<\/strong> highlights an optimistic annual trajectory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Readers should independently verify information before making investment decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 11:44 a.m. local time in Japan, the Nikkei Index reflected a positive start to the trading day, marking a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":39554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-markets"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43162,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43158\/revisions\/43162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}