Japan’s two benchmark stock indexes, Niklkei and Topix, both hit a new record high today

Japan benchmark share price indexes, Nikkei and Topix, have both hit all-time highs

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TOPIX is the Tokyo Price Index

• covers all domestic companies listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE)
• designed to track the overall trend of the Japanese stock market
• includes over 2,000 companies
• a free-float adjusted market capitalization-weighted index (only shares available for trading are considered in its calculations​)

Nikkei 225

• a price-weighted index of the top 225 blue-chip companies (TOPIX provides a broader and more comprehensive measure of the market)

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.