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Japan stocks post modest Christmas gains
AP - Friday, December 26
TOKYO - Japanese stocks made a modest comeback Thursday after falling sharply the previous session, buoyed by bargain hunters and Wall Street's rise overnight.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average added 82.40 yen, or 0.97 percent, to 8,599.50 in light volume. Many major markets around the world are closed for Christmas. The broader Topix index rose 1.09 percent to 836.02.
In a shortened session Wednesday on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.58 percent to 8,468.48 despite new U.S. reports on rising joblessness and declining consumer spending.
Investors in Tokyo picked up recent decliners including automakers like Toyota Motor Corp., which warned earlier this week that it would fall into the red this fiscal year through March.
Toyota advanced 2.34 percent to 2,845 yen in the issue's first rise in five sessions. Honda Motor Corp. closed up 2.95 percent at 1,850.
But Toyota truck affiliate Hino Motors Ltd. retreated 1.71 percent to 172 yen after downgrading its fiscal year profit forecasts the previous day.
"Although we expected a drop in revenues from production for Toyota ... overseas truck sales are deteriorating faster than we expected," said Goldman Sachs analysts Kota Yuzawa and Yukihiro Koike in a report.
Marine transport issues climbed in line with tumbling crude oil prices, which fell for the ninth straight day in New York on Wednesday.
Cargo shipper Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. jumped 5.39 percent to 547 yen, and Nippon Yusen K.K. rose 4.51 percent to 533 yen.
In currencies, the dollar was trading at 90.34 yen from 90.48 yen late Wednesday. The euro stood at $1.4015 from $1.4004.
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