In the Tokyo stock market on the 18th, buy orders swelled from the view that US monetary easing will continue for the time being, and the Nikkei Stock Average temporarily rose by more than 500 yen to exceed 30,000 yen.
▽ Nikkei Stock Average, the closing price in the morning is 30,402.46 yen, which is 488.13 yen higher than the closing price on the 17th.
▽ Tokyo Stock Price Index = Topics rose 22.80 to 2006.83.
It is the first time in 29 years and 10 months since May 1991 that the number of topics exceeded 2000 during the transaction time.
▽ The trading volume in the morning was 718.5 million shares.
Market officials said, "At the Fed's meeting, the fear of an early rate hike among some investors has receded as the current zero interest rate policy remains expected to continue until next year. As a result, buy orders are expanding. "