{"id":12064,"date":"2013-11-28T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12064"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T09:36:52","slug":"japans-nikkei-closes-at-highest-in-6-years-due-to-yen-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12064","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Nikkei closes at highest in 6 years due to yen weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/nikkei225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12065\" alt=\"nikkei225\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/nikkei225-300x258.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/nikkei225-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/nikkei225.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Tokyo&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.80 percent to its highest close in almost six years Thursday as a weak yen and record finishes on Wall Street helped propel the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The headline Nikkei finished up 277.49 points to 15,727.12, its best close since mid-December 2007, while the broader Topix index of all first-section shares added 1.12 percent, or 13.96 points, to 1,261.04. &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo&#8217;s benchmark Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.80 percent to its highest close in almost six years Thursday as a weak yen and record finishes on Wall Street helped propel the market. The headline Nikkei finished up 277.49 points to 15,727.12, its best close since mid-December 2007, while the broader Topix index of all first-section shares &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Japan&#8217;s Nikkei closes at highest in 6 years due to yen weakness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[2337,7638,7640,7639],"class_list":["post-12064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-finance","category-news","tag-japan","tag-nikkei-225","tag-stock-exchange","tag-tokyo"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/nikkei225.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12066,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions\/12066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}