TOKYO: Tokyo stocks opened 0.27 per cent higher Wednesday as investors largely shrugged off a Greek default on debt owed to the International Monetary Fund.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 55.32 points to 20,291.05 at the start.
Tokyo opened hours after Greece became the first developed country to default on its debt to the IMF, after missing a 1.5-billion-euro (S$2.3-billion) payment.
The higher opening also came after the release of a better-than-expected business confidence survey by the Bank of Japan.
