Overview
- Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rose about ¥589 to 64,082.36 in morning trade following heavy bargain buying of beaten-down names.
- Investors targeted deeply sold stocks such as SoftBank Group and Kioxia Holdings, and buybacks after a more than ¥1,700 fall over two sessions helped power the rebound.
- Global pressures pushed yields higher with the U.S. 10-year Treasury briefly near 5.04% and Japan's newly issued 10-year JGB yield touching about 3.025%, a multi-decade high.
- Crude oil jumped to roughly $105.8 a barrel on Middle East supply worries and U.S. stocks fell (the Dow down roughly $328), which limited gains and produced intra-session drops of more than ¥400 earlier in the day.
- The weak yen trading around ¥154.9 per dollar and higher long-term rates raise borrowing costs for households and companies and leave the Tokyo rally vulnerable if global yields or oil stay elevated.