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JPN225

CFDs, or Contracts for Difference, are derivatives that allow traders to easily gain long or short exposure to the price movements in various asset classes, including forex, stocks, commodities, and stock indexes.
The JPN 225 CFD tracks the Nikkei 225, or simply the Nikkei.

The index consists of 225 leading Japanese companies. The index has been around since 1950, and well-known constituents include Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Nomura, Sony and Fujitsu.
The Nikkei 225 covers many sectors and industries and can also be considered Japan's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Whether you want to buy Japanese stocks without actually selecting individual companies or short the Japan stock market as a whole, the JPN225 index is the easiest way to do so. It’s an easier way to gain exposure to the Japanese market as you won’t have to go through the process of opening an account in Japan.

 

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JPN225 Historical data

During the 1980s, the Nikkei was the top-performing equity market in the world. Then, starting in 1989, it experienced one of the worst bear markets in history, falling from over 38,000 to below 8,000. Since the global financial crisis in 2008, it has enjoyed a strong bull market rising over 300% but still has had a way to go to reclaim its all-time high of 38,915.

On 11 March 2011, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 hit the Pacific Ocean, just off Japan's Honshu Island. The death toll of this devastating disaster was an estimated 20,000. The Nikkei had plummeted by more than 10% two days later and faced a drop of 1,015 points. This particular index faced the worst in the coming year and eventually hit an all-time low by 17%, and finished at 8455.35.

 

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