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Nikkei edged up 0.3%

Strota Newsroom · Global Markets · session of 2026-08-05 · market close

Nikkei 225 closed at 63,957.53 on 2026-08-04, edged up 0.3% on the session and is +27.1% year-to-date. Here is what the market data shows.

Japan's Nikkei 225 ended its 4 August session at 63,957.53, up 0.32%. It was a small move, and the evidence behind this wrap does not point to a single driver for it: there is no breadth, volume or flow detail for the day, only the closing print and the trend around it.

That trend leaves the index in an awkward middle. It closed above its 200-day moving average of 57,133.43 -- the average close of the past 200 sessions, a rough marker of the long-run direction -- but below its 50-day average of 67,106.88, the shape a market takes after a hard rally and a pullback. The close sat 11.62% below the 52-week high of 72,366.34 and 57.73% above the 52-week low of 40,549.54. Over the past month it was down 8.3%; over the past week up 2.55%, over three months up 7.47%, and for the year to date up 27.05%.

The peer markets in the pack do not all carry the same closing date, so they cannot be read as one simultaneous session. Among those that also closed on 4 August, South Korea's KOSPI led at 1.62%, Australia's ASX 200 rose 1.4% and the Shanghai Composite added 0.33%, while Taiwan's TAIEX slipped 0.06% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.6%. The rest of the list is dated 5 August, a session later: the Dow rose 0.75% as the S&P 500 eased 0.14% and the Nasdaq lost 0.64%. Europe was mixed and shallow -- the FTSE 100 up 0.08%, the CAC 40 up 0.03%, the Euro Stoxx 50 down 0.15%, the DAX down 0.29% -- while in India the Sensex added 0.19% and the Nifty 50 0.04%.

The headline flow is mixed, and some of it is more recent than that closing price. TradingKey reported Japanese and Korean stocks finishing higher, with a near 4% jump in the KOSPI, and in a second report put the Nikkei 225 up 2%. finance.biggo.com reported the index reaching a 66,100 level on Asian buying tied to AI names. Business Standard reported a 1% slide two days ago with attention on the yen, then a recovery led by technology stocks. Reports from about three weeks back are rougher: Reuters described the index sliding into correction territory on a tech selloff and Middle East conflict.

The data establishes something narrow: a modest up day, a benchmark far above its 52-week low and well ahead for the year, yet below its 50-day average and 11.62% off its high after a losing month. It does not establish why the session closed where it did, and the headlines are reports rather than confirmed causes.

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How this article was made: Strota assembled the market data above (the index's price history, same-session peer-market moves and public headlines) and an AI model wrote the narrative strictly from that evidence — it is not permitted to add outside facts or numbers. Every figure comes from the underlying market/public data.