The benchmark index rose 3.6% to 14, 180 on its first day of trading after the Golden Week holiday.

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In China TV shipments increased 13% y-o-y in Q3 driven by holiday shopping during the Golden Week holiday in October.

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Today in Tokyo, the last trading day before the Golden Week holiday, market participants chose to take money off the table.

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In Asian trading the Japanese stock market hit a five-year high on the first trading day after the Golden Week holiday break.

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Some media reports had suggested that the Chinese authorities might raise interest rates for the first time in nine years as soon as the Golden Week holiday ended last week.

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Though Germany's DAX hit another record high, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average was the standout, surging 3.6 percent to 14, 180.24 on its first day of trading following the Golden Week holiday that's the first time the Nikkei has breached the 14, 000 mark since June 2008.

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Our report coincides with Japan's Golden Week national holiday, when much of the country shuts down for several days.

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But only days after the Chinese returned from Golden Week, a national holiday, the banks were reinvigorated.

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Golden Week is a national holiday that lasts seven days and is supposed to foster tourism, consumption, and allow workers to visit family members in more remote areas of the country.

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China is on holiday this week, celebrating Golden Week.

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