The Tokyo stock market on the 8th, the beginning of the week, stock prices rose slightly.
▽The Nikkei Stock Average closing price on the 8th is 28,249.24 yen, which is 73.37 yen higher than last weekend.
▽ Tokyo Stock Price Index = Topics rose 4.24 to 1951.41.
▽ The daily trading volume was 1,123,350,000 shares.
A market official said, ``As the yen weakened against the dollar in the foreign exchange market, export-related stocks such as automobiles were bought, and there were also buy orders for companies with strong financial results. Since the latest employment statistics were better than expected by the market, there were concerns about a slowdown in the US economy due to the acceleration of interest rate hikes, so the range of price increases was limited."