TOKYO -- The Nikkei Stock Average concluded the final trading day of 2019 at its highest year-end level in nearly three decades, after a year in which interest rate cuts around the world buoyed asset prices.
The benchmark index closed at 23,656.62 on Monday, down 181.10 points from Friday but up 18% for the year for the highest finish since 1990. Total market capitalization of the Tokyo Stock Exchange's first section came to 655 trillion yen ($5.98 trillion).
