Stock Market: Tokyo, open up (+0.77%)

Tokyo Stock Exchange consolidates gains in the last session of the week, pushing the index higher benchmark at 5-month highs, in the wake of the acceleration of the US stock market, with the attention of investors which shifts from the Middle East to the new tariff negotiations Americans, in view of the upcoming deadlines. At the opening the Nikkei rose 0.77% to 39,890.98, up 0.77% 128 points. On the exchange rate front, the yen was little changed on the dollar, at 144.70, and on the euro at 169.10.