Japan Stocks falls on weak global cues

The Japan share market ended lower on Wednesday, 14 September 2016, dragged down by tracking negative lead from Wall Street overnight. Meanwhile, sentiments were downbeat on growing speculation that the Bank of Japan will maintain the negative rate on excess reserves at the policy meeting next week and could even lower the rate in the future. The 225-issue Nikkei lost 114.80 points, or 0.69%, to finish at 16,614.24 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Topix index of all first-section issues lost 8.25 points, or 0.62%, to close at 1,314.74. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 1354 to 543 and 161 ended unchanged. The Nikkei Volatility, which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 2.40% to 23.02.

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