Heavyweight Components: Percent and Points

heavyweight components: On Friday, the key market gauge rose 104.00 points, according to The Japan Times. The Topix, including all first-section issues, ended down 0.11 point, or 0.01 percent, at 1,591.55, after climbing 1.25 points the previous trading day. The Nikkei 225 average shed 104.68 points, or 0.52 percent, to close at 19,908.58. The Nikkei average briefly fell over 170 points, led by weakness of its heavyweight components, after the tech-heavy U.S. Nasdaq composite index tumbled on Friday. The country's seasonally adjusted core machinery orders, closely watched as a leading indicator of corporate capital spending, fell 3.1 percent from the previous month, against the median estimate of a 1.2 percent decline by 20 economic research institutes surveyed by Jiji. Investor sentiment was also damped by weaker-than-expected Japanese machinery order data for April, released by the Cabinet Office just before the opening bell, brokers said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.