Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Transport and Communication sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the lost 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were SoftBank Group Corp. (), which rose 10.91% or 771.00 points to trade at 7,841.00 at the close. Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. () added 7.92% or 840.00 points to end at 11,445.00 and Renesas Electronics Corp () was up 6.80% or 292.00 points to 4,589.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Archion Corp (), which lost 8.68% or 35.00 points to trade at 368.00 in late trade. Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. () declined 6.54% or 531.00 points to end at 7,586.00 and Advantest Corp. () shed 6.05% or 1,680.00 points to 26,075.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1863 to 1689 and 229 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 4.76% to 29.70.
In commodities trading, was down 5.19% or 5.01 to $91.59 a barrel. Meanwhile, rose 1.79% or 1.67 to hit $95.09 a barrel, while the rose 0.20% or 9.30 to trade at $4,565.70 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was up 0.13% to 159.11, while EUR/JPY rose 0.06% to 185.13.
The was up 0.10% at 99.02.