On the 12th, the Tokyo stock market was mixed with buying and selling, and the stock price fluctuated slightly.
▽The closing price of the Nikkei Stock Average on the 12th was 26,449.82 yen, which is 3.82 yen higher than on the 11th.
▽ Tokyo Stock Price Index = Topics rose by 6.93 to 1908.18.
▽ The daily trading volume was 1,238,920,000 shares.
The US consumer price index for December last year will be released on the night of the 12th Japan time, but the market expects the inflation rate to slow down from the previous November.
As a result, in the stock market, buy orders spread immediately after the start of trading due to the expectation that the pace of interest rate hikes in the United States will slow down in the future.
However, the momentum did not last, and there were scenes where the Nikkei Stock Average turned to a decline.
The reason for this is the speculation surrounding the Bank of Japan's monetary policy.
With upward pressure on long-term interest rates continuing, even at the Bank of Japan's meeting to be held next week, there was a sense of caution that the Bank of Japan might make policy revisions following last December's policy revision, which pushed down stock prices.
Nervous trading is likely to continue, keeping an eye on the situation of prices in Japan and the United States and movements of monetary policy.