Japanese stocks posted weekly gains

Company shares have arrived Electronic chips Among the biggest losers, following their colleagues in… Wall Street Which decreased at the end of yesterday’s session.

withdraw Nikkei indicator by 0.77 percent and closed at 39,091.17 points, after briefly falling below the psychologically important level of 39,000 points. However, the index recorded a weekly growth of about 2.3 percent.

Shares of test equipment manufacturer Advantest fell ChipsIt’s one of my suppliers NVIDIA3.25 percent, recording the biggest loss of points on the Nikkei index. Stocks also fell Tokyo Electron For the production of equipment for the production of chips 2.58 percent.

The index fell Topic Broader, less dependent on tech stocks, 0.55 percent.

“After four consecutive days of gains, the market is growing cautious… A growing number of investors are holding back, waiting for the US jobs report,” said Kazuo Kamitani, equity analyst at Nomura.

And he’s waiting Investors Monthly non-farm payrolls data released later in the day provide fresh indications of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate path, with the market currently expecting a quarter-point rate cut at the central bank’s Dec. 18 meeting. .

On the other hand, it ensured the stability of the exchange rate Yen At about 150 to the dollar, in support of industrial actions Carssome of which fell to multi-year lows as the currency surged to its highest level in nearly two months earlier this week.

The stock rose April 2.65 percent and Mazda 1.54 percent. While Toyota shares fell by 0.11 percent.

Out of 33 sub-indices, the airline sector recorded the best performance Tokyo Stock ExchangeIt rose 0.73 percent as crude oil prices fell amid a focus on weak demand.