On the 8th, the Tokyo stock market and the Nikkei stock average rose by more than 400 yen at one point.
In the Tokyo stock market on the 8th, buy orders spread as stock prices rose in the New York market on the 7th before the US midterm elections.
▽The Nikkei Stock Average closing price in the morning was 27,879.70 yen, which is 352.6 yen higher than the closing price on the 7th.
▽ Tokyo Stock Price Index = Topics rose by 20.87 to 1954.96.
▽ Morning trading volume was 648.54 million shares.
A market official said, ``If the opposition Republican party increases the number of seats in the US midterm elections, which will start voting tonight in Japan time, the Biden administration will find it difficult to launch large-scale fiscal spending. Following the market, stock prices are also rising in the Tokyo market."