India, April 9 -- The Japanese market is trading sharply higher on Friday, reversing the losses in the previous session, despite the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight. The Nikkei 225 is moving above the 56,700 level, with gains in technology and financial stocks.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is down 819.53 points or 1.47 percent to 56,714.85, after touching a high of 56,885.81 earlier. Japanese shares ended notably lower on Thursday.
Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is losing more than 1 percent, while Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is surging more than 9 percent after raising its full-year operating profit forecast on robust demand from the US and Europe. Among automakers, Toyota is edging down 0.1 percent and Honda is ...