TOKYO: A woman walks past a stock quotation board flashing the Nikkei 225 key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in front of a securities company in Tokyo on May 8, 2017.
Tokyo’s benchmark stock index was on course to close at a 17-month high Monday after pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron swept his far-right rival in France’s presidential election. The Nikkei 225 hit levels unseen since December 2015, adding 1.80 percent, or 349.49 points, to sit at 19,795.19 by the lunch break. The broader Topix index of all first-section shares climbed 1.86 percent, or 28.81 points, to 1,579.11.
