Japan&#39;s Nikkei Has First Consecutive Yearly Advance Since 1995
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Japanese stocks rose, with benchmarks posting their first consecutive yearly gains in almost a decade. Exporters including Honda Motor Co.
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Japan's Nikkei average edged up 0.25 percent at the opening on Tuesday as investors stayed optimistic about Japan's economy and bought banks and insurance firms.
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Japan's economy has marked its longest economic expansion since World War II, according to a government report released yesterday.
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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.
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The Nikkei average rose 0.12 percent to a  7-1/2-month closing high on Tuesday, supported by gains in  financial shares as investors saw chances of more industry  consolidation and on optimism over Japan's economy.
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Japan's Nikkei rose 0.97 percent by  midsession on Wednesday as a rise in the U.S. Dow Jones average  to its highest close in 3    years encouraged the view that  Japanese shares are undervalued compared with overseas markets.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average rose 1.33 percent  by midday on Friday, led higher by banks and insurers thanks to  a better-than-expected corporate sentiment survey by the Bank  of Japan.
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Tokyo&#39;s Nikkei average rose for the first time in three sessions to close 0.62 percent higher on Wednesday after investors found positive signs in revised Japanese economic growth figures that were sluggish overall.
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MUMBAI: Japanese stocks gained after a Government report showed industrial production rose for the first month in three, providing evidence that growth in the worlds second-largest economy will be sustained.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose on expectations a government report today may provide further evidence of growth in the world&#39;s second-largest economy.
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Japan's Nikkei average edged up 0.25  percent at the opening on Tuesday as investors stayed  optimistic about Japan's economy and bought banks and insurance  firms.
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Investment by Japanese firms hit a record in the first quarter of 2007, official data shows.
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Japan's Nikkei average edged up 0.26 percent by midsession on Wednesday after the Bank of Japan's quarterly "tankan" survey showed a weakening of corporate sentiment that was in line with expectations.
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Japan's economy has marked its longest economic expansion since World War II, according to a government report Wednesday.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 10.96, or 0.1 percent, to 11,365.55 as of 9:21 am in Tokyo. The broader Topix index lost 0.37 point to 1141.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average was up 0.88  percent by mid-afternoon on Friday, bolstered by gains in  Nippon Steel Corp. and its rivals after firm Chinese growth  data eased concern over a slowdown in one of Japan's biggest  export markets.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average rose for a third straight session on Tuesday on expectations of a year-end rally and amid a growing consensus that Japanese shares were due to catch up with gains in overseas stock markets.