{"id":475627,"date":"2022-03-15T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T03:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=475627"},"modified":"2022-03-15T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T04:02:03","slug":"japans-nikkei-gains-as-crude-oil-declines-coronavirus-cases-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japans-nikkei-gains-as-crude-oil-declines-coronavirus-cases-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei gains as crude oil declines, coronavirus cases drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei stock index advanced on Monday, supported by a retreat in crude oil as investors turned more optimistic over the Russia-Ukraine crisis. <\/p>\n<p>Travel-related stocks jumped on a decline in COVID-19 infections and hopes of resumption of a government programme to boost tourism. <\/p>\n<p>Financial shares rallied as higher long-term global bond yields improved the outlook for profits. Automakers stood out too, as a weaker yen boosted the value of overseas sales. <\/p>\n<p>The Nikkei share average ended the morning session 0.69% higher at 25,337.39, although that was off the early highs when the benchmark gained as much as 1.86%. Of the Nikkei&#8217;s 225 component stocks, 193 advanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei stock index advanced on Monday, supported by a retreat in crude oil as investors turned more optimistic over the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Travel-related stocks jumped on a decline in COVID-19 infections and hopes of resumption of a government programme to boost tourism. Financial shares rallied as higher long-term global bond yields improved the outlook for profits. Automakers stood out too, as a weaker yen boosted the value of overseas sales. The Nikkei share average ended the morning session 0.69% higher at 25,337.39, although that was off the early highs when the benchmark gained as much as 1.86%. Of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}