The stock market of Friday, January 18, 2019

Hope for a relaxation of the trade dispute between the United States and China has the Tokyo Stock Exchange boosted the weekly closing. Investors are taking risks again, the brokers said.

Trigger was a report on a possible lifting of US import duties on Chinese productsA proposal was submitted by US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing insiders. He brought the reversal of the trade dispute for the next round of negotiations on January 30. A spokesman for the ministry denied this information, but investors have taken heart again.

the Nikkei increased by 1.3 percent to 20,674 points, the highest level in a month. He also followed the positive demands imposed by the media on American stock exchanges. the MSCI Index for Asian stocks out of Japan gained 0.7 percent. The Chinese stock market in Shanghai gained 0.8%.

the euro quoted in the currency of the Far East, trading has hardly changed dollarFor the Japanese currency, the US currency was slightly higher at 109.32. yen,