Published on 09/15/2026 at 03:35 am EDT
(Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average erased early gains to end little changed on Tuesday, as higher oil prices and rising bond yields hurt investor sentiment, while SoftBank Group rebounded from a selloff in the previous session.
The Nikkei closed 0.01% lower at 63,484.1 after rising about 1% earlier. The broader Topix fell 0.52% to 4,037.16.
"The rise in oil prices as well as higher government bond yields weighed on investor sentiment," said Daisuke Hashizume, senior strategist at Daiwa Securities.
"Today's trade was led by short-term investors and they sold stocks for profits from gains earlier in the session."
Oil prices rose nearly 2% as concerns over supply disruptions lingered after attacks on Saudi Arabian energy infrastructure left the kingdom's East-West pipeline offline and cast doubt on efforts to ease shipping risks in the Gulf.
Japan's government bond yields rose, with the 10-year yield hitting its highest since September 1996.
Shares of chip-related firms Advantest and Tokyo Electron gave up early gains to fall 2.96% and 0.55%, respectively.
SoftBank jumped 7.54%, recovering part of the previous session's 10.7% slide after a selloff in AI-linked stocks triggered by warnings from industry leaders about the technology's risks. Memory chip maker Kioxia rose 2.29%.
"Japan was the first market that was hit by the warning from the AI leaders in the previous session," said Kazuaki Shimada, chief strategist at IwaiCosmo Securities.
"The morning after, investors thought it was too early to judge the fate of the pace of AI investments by hyperscalers."
Banks fell, with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group down 1.4% and 2.67%, respectively.
Sony Group fell 1.66%.
Of the more than 1,500 stocks trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's prime market, 51% rose, 44% fell and 4% traded flat.
(Reporting by Junko Fujita; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips and Subhranshu Sahu)

Sumber : Reuters