India, May 27 -- The Japanese market is trading slightly lower on Thursday, reversing the slight gains in the previous session, despite the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight. The Nikkei 225 is falling well below the 64,950 level, with weakness in financial and technology stocks partially offset by gains in automaker stocks.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index is down 83.05 points or 0.13 percent to 64,916.36, after hitting a low of 64,468.56 earlier. Japanese stocks ended slightly higher on Wednesday.
Market heavyweight SoftBank Group is declining almost 4 percent, while Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing is gaining more than 1 percent. Among automakers, Toyota is gaining more than 1 percent and Honda is advancing almost 1 percent....