{"id":18276,"date":"2026-05-07T02:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/18276\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:52:16","slug":"japans-nikkei-all-time-high-stock-market-today-why-is-japans-nikkei-rising-to-all-time-historic-high-what-us-investors-need-to-know-about-yens-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/18276\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Nikkei all-time high: Stock Market today: Why is Japan’s Nikkei rising to all-time historic high? What US investors need to know about Yen’s surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan<\/a>‘s Nikkei<\/a> share average shot to a record high on Thursday as financial markets reopened after holidays, catching up with optimism \u200cover \u2060strong technology earnings \u2060and signs of a potential peace deal in the Middle East. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index rose 3.38 per cent to an all-time high of 61,523.36 in early \u2060trading. The \u200cbroader Topix climbed 2.02 per cent to 3,803.95.<\/p>\n

Japan’s \u200bmarkets are also \u2060responding to a stronger yen since the \u200blast trading day on Friday, \u200bfollowing bouts of suspected intervention by Tokyo to bolster the currency.
Wall Street indexes hit record highs overnight as \u200cpositive results from Advanced Micro Devices propelled euphoria over the red-hot \u200bartificial \u200bintelligence sector. \u2060Iran said it is reviewing a U.S. proposal to end the more than \u200btwo-month war, while President Donald Trump said the U.S. has had very good talks with Tehran.<\/p>\n

U.S. \u200bTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet \u200bJapan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi next week to discuss curbing speculative yen selling, among other issues, \u200cthe Nikkei \u2060newspaper reported \u2060on Thursday, citing Japan-U.S. diplomatic sources.<\/p>\n

Bessent will visit \u200bJapan for three days starting Monday and will also \u200bmeet other senior officials, the report said.<\/p>\n

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The yen surged suddenly on Wednesday, \u200bsparking speculation of further intervention \u2060by Tokyo. \u200cThe currency climbed from around 157.8 \u200bto \u200bthe dollar to 155 in \u2060a half hour of holiday-thinned trade in \u200bthe Asian session.
Last month, Japan \u200band the U.S. had agreed to strengthen communication on exchange rates. Bessent had repeatedly signalled that the yen’s weakness could be better addressed through faster rate hikes \u200cby the Bank of Japan.Bessent will speak individually on Tuesday \u200bwith Takaichi, Finance \u200bMinister Satsuki \u2060Katayama and BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda, Nikkei reported, citing officials from both countries.<\/p>\n

Beyond currency issues, \u200bthe agenda will also cover economic security matters such as rare earths and energy procurement, and potentially the war in Iran, it reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan‘s Nikkei share average shot to a record high on Thursday as financial markets reopened after holidays, catching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-18276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-japan","9":"tag-japanese"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}