Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the , and sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tokyo, the declined 1.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the were Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd. (TYO:), which rose 5.05% or 50.00 points to trade at 1,043.00 at the close. Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (TYO:) added 4.94% or 64.00 points to end at 1,362.00 and Omron Cor (TYO:) was up 3.83% or 207.00 points to 5,638.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Resonac Holdings Corp (TYO:), which lost 6.51% or 236.00 points to trade at 3,391.00 in late trade. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (TYO:) declined 6.36% or 324.00 points to end at 4,772.00 and Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. (TYO:) shed 6.04% or 1,205.00 points to 18,805.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 2782 to 955 and 150 ended unchanged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
The , which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was down 2.57% to 18.57.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.34% or 0.28 to $83.45 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.29% or 0.25 to hit $87.25 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 1.97% or 44.05 to trade at $2,282.45 a troy ounce.
USD/JPY was down 0.02% to 151.32, while EUR/JPY rose 0.08% to 163.26.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 104.23.
