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Bank gains send Tokyo stocks higher in final session.

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

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, Dec. 28 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING THURSDAY'S TOTAL VOLUME IN SIXTH PARAGRAPH)

Share prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange closed higher Friday, the last session of the year, as bank issues soared in reaction to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's comments in favor of additional fund injection into the nation's banks.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 85.01 points, or 0.81%, to close the half-day session at 10,542.62, the lowest year-end closing price since 1983, when it...

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