Strong rise on the Tokyo Stock Exchange – Västerbotten Courier

The Tokyo Stock Exchange opened the trading week with a jump of joy. The Nikkei 225 index rose 4.0 percent.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party won parliamentary elections last weekend, giving investors hope for new economic stimulus package. The broader Topixindexet rose by 3.8 percent.

One of the big winners were the gaming giant Nintendo, which rose by almost 25 percent, on their mobile betting on the game series Pokémon been going strong since it launched in the US and Australia.

While the rest of Asia’s leading stock exchanges started the week up. Taiwan’s Weighted index rose by 1.7 percent and Seoulbörsens Kospi Index went up by 1.3 percent.

At eight o’clock Swedish time had Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index gained 1.5 percent and the Shanghai Composite Index had risen by 1.0 percent.