(30 Dec 2024)
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Tokyo – 30 December 2024
1. Wide of display board showing stock trades, after closing for the year ++MUTE++
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hiromi Yamaji, CEO of Japan Exchange Group:
"To start with, a former Tokyo Stock Exchange employee was prosecuted by Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office last week for suspected insider trading. I deeply apologise to the investors and listed companies for all the inconvenience and concerns caused by this case."
3. Close of Nikkei 225 index’s closing figures ++MUTE++
4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hiromi Yamaji, CEO of Japan Exchange Group:
"I acknowledge trust towards the market is essential for investors to trade with confidence. While we review the officers’ and employees’ training and the verification of the independent director’s investigation and evaluation committee, we are doing are our utmost best to rebuild the trust and prevent recurrence."
5. Mid of display board showing stock trades, after closing for the year ++MUTE++
6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hiromi Yamaji, CEO of Japan Exchange Group:
"This February, (Nikkei 225 index) exceeded the 38,915 yen benchmark reached the new record high since the end of the bubble economy period in 1989 – the first time in approximately 34 years. The stock price showed steady progress, and on 11 July, it marked the highest of this year at 42,224 yen while TOPIX also updated its record."
7. Mid of camera operator
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hiromi Yamaji, CEO of Japan Exchange Group:
"Above all, with the signs of the virtuous cycle of wages and prices, I consider seeing the path breaking away from a deflationary economy as the primary factor."
9. Digital ticker, reading (Japanese): "Japan Exchange Group’s closing ceremony for 2024"
10. Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Managing Executive Officer Hiroki Kawai, taking the lead to mark the closing of the ceremony
STORYLINE:
Tokyo’s stock market wrapped up trading for 2024 with a year-end ceremony on Monday as Japan began its New Year holidays, the biggest festival of the year.
Japan Exchange Group’s CEO Hiromi Yamaji also apologised to the traders and listed companies for the scandal in which a former Tokyo Stock Exchange employee was prosecuted by Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office for suspected insider trading.
Yamaji said officials were working to keep the trust of the investors to have confidence.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index lost 1% to 39,894.62. The dollar gained against the Japanese yen, trading at 157.93 yen, up from 157.75 yen. The Tokyo market wrapped up trading for 2024 with a yearend ceremony as Japan began its New Year holidays, the biggest festival of the year.
Asian shares were mixed on Monday after stocks fell broadly on Friday as Wall Street closed out a holiday-shortened week on a down note.
AP video shot by Mayuko Ono
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