India, May 6 -- The Japanese market is sharply higher in post-holiday trading on Thursday, extending the gains in the previous session, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight. The Nikkei 225 is surging 4.5 percent to well above the 62,150 level, with gains in across most sectors led by index heavyweights and technology stocks.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is up 2,676.58 points or 4.50 percent to 62,189.70, after touching a high of 62,234.86 earlier. Japanese stocks ended modestly higher on Friday ahead of the holidays on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is soaring more than 13 percent and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is gaining more than 2 percent. Among automakers, Toyota is gai...