Nikkei 225 extended its rally from Feb 6 reversal low, supported by Takaichi’s snap election victory and parliamentary supermajority, making it the top-performing index over last 2 sessions.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party captured a two-thirds supermajority in the 465-seat lower house, public broadcaster NHK reported.

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Such a decisive LDP victory — it now holds a two-thirds majority in the Lower House — could allow Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to pursue aggressive spending with gusto. The benchmark index is now up more than 45% over the past year.

Takaichi led the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a supermajority in the Lower House, securing 316 seats in Japan's largest election win since World War Two.

TOKYO] Japan’s Nikkei share average surged to a record high in early Tuesday trade, following robust quarterly earnings and momentum from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s landslide victory in

The markets in Asia have been one of the better performers over the last several weeks and should continue to attract inflows going forward.

The Liberal Democratic Party's election victory sparked a surge in broad-based buying of stocks in early Monday trading in Japan.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 share index jumped as much as 5% to a record on Monday after Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election.

The Nikkei 225 Index continued its strong surge on Monday, reaching a record high, as investors cheered the landslide win by Sanae Takaichi

The Nikkei 225 index has been moving sideways for almost 2 years around 40,000, as you can see from the following chart. Thanks to the economic agenda that Sanae Takaichi and her party pushed in 2025,