Nikkei up 0.04% at the start of trading in Tokyo

The Nikkei's average rose Tuesday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The Nikkei rose 0.04% to 2,425.44 points.

The broad TOPIX index was up 0.04% to 1,555.69 points.

China on Monday released data showing a slowdown in economic growth to 6.2 percent in the second quarter, the slowest pace of growth in at least 27 years, as both domestic and external demand fell in the second half of the year. effect of growing trade pressure in the United States.

"The slowdown in the world's second largest economy will result in a larger widening of the gap between Japanese equities and equities," traders said. Japan no longer has a lot of political solutions to support the weakness of the economy. "