India, July 30 -- The Japanese market is trading sharply higher on Friday, extending the gains in the previous session, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight. The Nikkei 225 is surging 5.4 percent to near the 65,200 level, with gains across most sectors led by financial and technology stocks.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is up 3,328.61 points or 5.38 percent to 65,196.04, after touching a high of 65,203.87 earlier. Japanese shares ended notably higher on Thursday.
Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is spiking more than 15 percent and Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is edging up 0.5 percent. Among automakers, Toyota is down almost 1 percent and Honda is losing almost 2 percent.
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