Japan stocks rise on thin trading
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Japanese stocks enjoy some gains on light trading but are still down nearly 10% so far this year.
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Japanese stocks rose Thursday after three-straight days of decline, with short-covering and bargain-hunting in oil shares outpacing drops in the real estate sector.
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Tokyo stocks opened higher Thursday as investors welcomed Wall Street&#39;s gains. The dollar was up against the Japanese yen. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues was up 14.
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Tokyo stocks opened higher Thursday as investors bought a broad range of issues following Wall Street's strength. The dollar was down against the Japanese yen.
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Japan's Nikkei average rose 1.61 percent  by midsession on Friday on a wave of short-covering after some  players bet the country's economic slowdown wouldn't last long  and bought stock futures while selling bond futures.
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Japanese stocks rose by midsession on Monday as growing confidence over the country's economic outlook lifted retailers and real estate firms such as Mitsubishi Estate Co. that rely more on domestic business.
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Japanese stocks rose to a seven-year high Thursday amid recent yen weakness, which helps the nation's key exporters, and optimism over the nation's economic outlook.
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Japanese stocks rose on Tuesday on expectations that a Government report later today would provide further evidence of strength in the world&#39;s second-largest economy.
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Tokyo stocks opened higher Thursday following Wall Street's jump. The dollar was down against the Japanese yen.
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Tokyo stocks opened higher on Thursday buoyed by solid gains by U.S. technology shares. The dollar was down against the Japanese yen and the euro.
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Tokyo stocks edged up on Thursday as tech issues bounced back after their U.S counterparts made gains, but car firms such as Honda Motor Co. Ltd. were a bit lower, hurt by a fall in U.S. industry sales for August.
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Japanese stocks rose early Thursday following Wall Street's rally overnight. The dollar was down against the yen.
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Japanese stocks rose by midsession on  Monday as growing confidence over the country's economic  outlook lifted retailers and real estate firms such as  Mitsubishi Estate Co. that rely more on domestic business.
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Tokyo stocks inched up Tuesday morning, nudging aside Wall Street's broader losses and taking encouragement from a rise in U.S. technology stocks. The dollar was trading higher against the Japanese yen.
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Japanese stocks rose 1.9 percent by midsession on Monday as a strong performance by US semiconductor-related stocks gave a push to Japanese peers such as Advantest Corp.
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Tokyo stocks rose slightly in early trading Wednesday following Wall Street's gains, but many investors were on the sidelines ahead of the end of Japan's fiscal first-half. The dollar was down against the Japanese yen.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei average rose more than 1 percent to a 2-1/2-month closing high on Friday, bolstered by Wall Street gains and a growing consensus that Tokyo stocks look cheap compared with the US and other Asian markets.