The Tokyo stock market and the Nikkei average stock price rose on the 5th at the beginning of the week.
▽Nikkei Stock Average, closing price on the 5th was 196.14 yen higher than last weekend's closing price, 36,354.16 yen.
▽TSE Stock Price Index = Topics rose 17.03 to 2,556.71.
▽Daily trading volume was 1,869.86 yen. It was 10,000 shares.
At the beginning of the week, on the 5th, the Tokyo stock market was dominated by buy orders right from the start of trading.
The yen depreciated in the foreign exchange market as employment statistics released in the United States on the 2nd of last week showed a strong labor market and diminished expectations of an early interest rate cut. .
In response to this, the prices of export-related stocks such as automobiles rose on the Tokyo stock market on the 5th.
Additionally, buy orders were received for department store stocks whose earnings forecasts were raised one after another last week on the back of strong inbound demand.
Japanese companies' third-quarter earnings announcements will reach their peak this week.
Investors are paying attention to the future performance outlook as well as what measures each company will take to improve its market value, such as shareholder returns and investments for growth.