Tokyo Stocks Rise 1 Percent, Techs Lead
480400
Tokyo's Nikkei average appeared headed  for its third straight day of gains on Thursday and was up one  percent by late afternoon as tech issues such as Shin-Etsu  Chemical were lifted by a rally in New York.
322732
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.
692461
Tokyo stocks edged up at the opening on  Thursday, cheered by a rise on Wall Street, although gains were  limited as investors await a barrage of earnings reports from  blue chips such as Sony Corp
414235
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.
684002
Tokyo stocks rose by midday on Monday as  a broad range of issues got a lift from a key survey that  boosted optimism on Japan's economic outlook and raised  expectations that growth figures will be revised up.
222714
Tokyo's Nikkei rose 0.3 percent by midday  on Tuesday as another jump in U.S. technology shares fueled  buying of local peers such as Tokyo Electron Ltd. and earnings  optimism again buoyed some miners.
621223
Tokyo stocks climbed Monday morning, encouraged by Wall Street&#39;s rally last week and an upgrade of major Japanese banks by an international credit rating agency.
457657
Tokyo stocks rose by mid-morning on Monday with a broad range of issues getting a lift from a key survey that boosted optimism on Japan's economic outlook, with expectations rising that growth figures will be revised up.
463735
Tokyo stocks rose Thursday morning, following earlier gains by US shares on Wall Street. The dollar was up against the Japanese yen.
524069
The Nikkei average rose 1.17 percent on  Wednesday, recovering from a one-month closing low the previous  day as heavyweight stocks such as Fanuc Ltd. (6954.T) led the  market higher following a rally in U.S. shares.
389502
The Nikkei average rose 1.24 percent by mid-morning trade on Monday as a recovery in U.S. stocks encouraged investors to seek bargains among lagging issues, including Hitachi Ltd. and other high-tech firms.
694152
The Nikkei average rose one percent in  early Friday trade after Japanese GDP data, although weak,  confounded some players' fears of a contraction and drew buyers  back to brokers and tech shares.
546231
Stocks rose around 1 percent on Friday, lifted by strong results in the technology sector from Research in Motion that sent shares of the BlackBerry maker surging.
386066
Japan's Nikkei average rose 1.62 percent  by midsession on Thursday as investors, cheered by a jump in  U.S. stocks, bought a broad range of shares including those  they had avoided recently due partly to doubts about U.S.  demand.
48327
Tokyo stocks closed higher Tuesday for the first time in eight sessions as investors bought high-technology stocks on upbeat earnings reports by Texas Instruments and IBM. The dollar was up against the Japanese yen.
137445
Tokyo's Nikkei rose 1.14 percent by  midday on Thursday as gains on Wall Street encouraged investors  to scoop up bargains, including key technology shares,  following nine days of losses.
489906
Japanese shares rose for a third straight  day on Thursday, advancing over one percent as a rally on Wall  Street encouraged buying of technology issues such as Toshiba  Corp. and Shin-Etsu Chemical