topix index: On Thursday, the key market gauge advanced 268.78 points, according to The Japan Times. The Topix index of all first-section issues rose 12.67 points, or 0.84 percent, to close at 1,525.36, after gaining 22.07 points the previous day. The 225-issue Nikkei average added 230.90 points, or 1.23 percent, to close at 18,996.37 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after topping the 19,000 threshold for the first time in about a year. The Tokyo market got off to a higher start, in the wake of gains in major European and U.S. shares overnight. The yen weakening against the dollar also helped lift the market, they added. Investors took heart from the European Central Bank decision Thursday to extend its quantitative monetary easing program by nine months beyond March 2017 and the Dow Jones industrial average record-breaking advance on the New York Stock Exchange the same day, brokers said.
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