Summary The euro traded up at $1.1331 and 135.36 yen against $1.1322 and 135.30 yen in US trade
TOKYO (AFP) - Tokyo stocks opened up 0.63 percent Tuesday, tracking modest gains on Wall Street after falling a day earlier on weak Chinese economic growth data.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 114.31 points to 18,245.54 in opening trade.
Wall Street edged up on Monday as advances in tech shares offset softness in petroleum-linked stocks, which fell with oil prices after Beijing reported the weakest quarterly growth in more than six years.
Chinese growth came in at 6.9 percent in July-September, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday, the worst since early 2009 at the height of the global financial crisis, although still better than the 6.8 percent tipped by analysts in an AFP survey.
The Nikkei fell 0.88 percent Monday as the tepid growth figures in a major market for Japanese companies dragged Tokyo into negative territory.
"Japanese stocks dropped excessively yesterday," Mitsuo Shimizu, deputy general manager at Japan Asia Securities Group, told Bloomberg News.
"While the data showed the Chinese economy slowed, it also showed consumption is robust."
Investors were now looking ahead to a monthly Japanese trade report on Wednesday with all eyes on exports to China.
Markets were also looking for any sign of fresh policy moves by the Bank of Japan, which holds a meeting next week.
In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.08 percent by the close, while the broad-based S&P 500 edged up 0.03 percent and the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 0.38 percent.
In Asian currency markets, the dollar edged down to 119.46 yen from 119.50 yen on Monday in New York.
The euro traded up at $1.1331 and 135.36 yen against $1.1322 and 135.30 yen in US trade.
