Previous close | 18,298.72 |
Open | 18,255.35 |
Volume |
Day's range | 18,218.54 - 18,428.88 |
52-week range | 14,630.21 - 18,892.92 |
Avg. volume | 62,885,887 |
The FTSE 100 and European stocks rebounded after a recent rout that has seen a shift away from AI and tech stocks.
China's back-to-back interest-rate cuts signal urgency to shore up growth after the recent Communist party plenum offered little support to the nation's flagging economy.
U.S. futures and oil prices rose. Early Friday, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index was up 0.3% at 37,977.30, after sinking 3.3% the day before amid heavy sell-offs in many markets. Tokyo's core consumer price index rose 2.2% in July, rising for the third straight month to its highest level in four months, adding to expectations that the Bank of Japan may raise its near-zero benchmark interest rate at a policy meeting next week.