Nikkei Ends the Week and Month Higher, A Look at Nikkei Market Movers from Friday (ATE, MTF, HIT, TMIC, SNE, MLEA, NTT, SANYY, DCM, TM)

The Nikkei is up 181.67 points or 1.36% for the final week of September, wrapping up a month in which the index gained an impressive1067.33 points (8.53%). Year-to-date the Nikkei is up 2056.55 points for a percent gain of 17.86%. The Nikkei consists of 225 stocks and is often referred to as the Japanese Dow, of which it is modeled after. Data on Friday's Nikkei market movers:

Some of the biggest movers on the final day of trading this month in Japan are listed below. Note that these stocks also trade in the U.S. as ADRs and I have included the ADR tickers, however the percent gain/losses listed are for the Japanese traded stocks on Sept. 30th.

Top 5 percent gainers:

• Advantest Corporation (ticker: ATE) +5.01%
• Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (ticker: MTF) +2.76%
• Hitachi Ltd (ticker: HIT) +2.42% * on very strong volume of 31 million
• Trend Micro (ticker: TMIC) +1.13%
• Sony (ticker: SNE) +.27%

Bottom 5 percent losers:

• Millea Holdings Inc (ticker: MLEA) -4.71%
• Nippon Telephone (ticker: NTT) -4.45%
• Sanyo Electric Co Ltd (ticker: SANYY) -2.78%
• NTT Docomo Inc (ticker: DCM) – 2.42%
• Toyota Motor Corp (ticker: TM) – 2.07%