A poster of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi displayed on the Liberal Democratic Social gathering’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Photographer: Toru Hanai/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures
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Japan’s Nikkei 225 continued its post-election rally and reached new highs on Tuesday, amid beneficial properties within the broader Asian markets.
The Japanese market continues to trip the “Takaichi commerce” within the wake of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s landslide victory within the Decrease Home.
Nikkei 225 rose 2.39% to 57,708, whereas the Topix was up 1.91%, additionally at a recent file.
Shares of Softbank Group Corp spiked as a lot as 11.95% on Tuesday after the corporate upgraded its full yr forecasts for its monetary yr ending March 31. This follows a 6.3% achieve on Monday.
South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.35%, paring some beneficial properties, whereas the small-cap Kosdaq fell into unfavourable territory and was 0.86% decrease.
Hong Kong’s Dangle Seng index was up 1.12%, and mainland China’s CSI 300 was marginally down.
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.44%, extending beneficial properties to a 3rd day.
In a single day within the U.S., tech shares powered the S&P 500 to back-to-back beneficial properties, with the broad-based index rising 0.47%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Common was marginally as much as a file excessive of fifty,135.87, and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 0.9%.
—CNBC’s Sean Conlon contributed to this report.
