At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 1.55%. The best performers of the session ... Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ...

Tokyo stocks ended flat Monday as investors remained cautious before Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was confirmed winner of ...

Tokyo stocks opened higher Tuesday, as sentiment was boosted after Wall Street indexes closed at new record highs overnight. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose ...

The Nikkei stock index soared 2 percent Wednesday morning, as exporters were lifted by a weaker yen after reports that early ...

Asian shares were trading mostly lower Tuesday, despite a rally on Wall Street in stocks seen as benefiting the most from ...

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average briefly topped the 40,000 level for the first time in about 3 months. Tuesday's gains followed an overnight rally in New York on optimism for the US economic ...

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index was up 1.3% at 39,390.49 ... It moved so sharply during the day that trading of its stock was ...

The package, which was approved Friday, was designed to alleviate local government debt but fell short of investor expectations.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange kicked off a 30-minute extension of its daily trading hours on Tuesday. That's the first time-change ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its trading hours by 30 minutes from Tuesday as part of its efforts to make the bourse more ...

U.S. stocks cruised to more records as they closed their best week in a year. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% Friday to cap its biggest ...

The Nikkei share average crossed a 34-year high ... At the end of September, 80% of companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's prime market had submitted such plans. From next year the exchange ...