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Tokyo stocks edge higher after wild trading

Published November 11, 2016 Updated November 11, 2016 06:52am

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks edged higher Friday after two days of wild trading that followed Donald Trump's surprise win in the US presidential election.

The benchmark Nikkei 225 index -- which rallied almost seven percent on Thursday after initially sinking on Trump's victory -- added 0.18 percent, or 30.37 points, to end at 17,374.79.

The broader Topix index of all first section issues was up 0.14 percent, or 1.93 points, to 1,378.28.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2016