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Tokyo stocks close lower despite weak yen.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 31-DEC-01
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, Dec. 25 Kyodo

Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange closed lower Tuesday despite trimming some of their earlier losses on the yen's fall against the dollar.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average shed 80.64 points, or 0.78%, to close at 10,254.81. The broader Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) of all First Section issues lost 4.70 points, or 0.47%, to 1,002.82.

Japan's financial markets were closed Monday for a national holiday.

The Nikkei trimmed some of its 100-point morning loss by midafternoon as automakers...

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