Japan stocks lower at close of trade; Nikkei 225 down 3.01% By Investing.com

Investing.com – Japan stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in Tokyo, the declined 3.01%.

The best performers of the session on the were Kansai Electric Power Co Inc (TYO:), which rose 2.61% or 32.00 points to trade at 1,259.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings (TYO:) added 1.76% or 71.00 points to end at 4,108.00 and Chiba Bank Ltd (TYO:) was up 1.68% or 12.00 points to 726.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Softbank Group Corp. (TYO:), which fell 6.85% or 380.00 points to trade at 5,165.00 at the close. Kubota Corp. (TYO:) declined 6.26% or 153.50 points to end at 2,298.50 and Omron Cor (TYO:) was down 5.89% or 438.00 points to 7,003.00.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 2911 to 645 and 202 ended unchanged.

The , which measures the implied volatility of Nikkei 225 options, was up 5.19% to 21.27.

Crude oil for July delivery was down 2.17% or 2.62 to $118.05 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 2.14% or 2.61 to hit $119.40 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.63% or 11.80 to trade at $1,863.70 a troy ounce.

USD/JPY was up 0.23% to 134.74, while EUR/JPY fell 0.08% to 141.22.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.39% at 104.42.