{"id":777018817,"date":"2024-09-06T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777018817"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:22:51","slug":"agem-index-up-5-5-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-up-5-5-in-august","title":{"rendered":"AGEM Index up 5.5% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seven of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw stock price increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.-&nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>AGEM Index&nbsp;<\/strong>reached 1,502.26 points in August 2024. That\u2019s an increase of 78.77 points or 5.5 per cent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-up-7-in-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from July<\/a> and 395.19 points or 35.7 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw stock price increases, resulting in seven positive contributions and five negative contributions to the index.&nbsp;<strong>Konami<\/strong> was the largest positive contributor, with a 15.2 per cent increase in its stock price. Meanwhile,&nbsp;<strong>Aristocrat Leisure Limited <\/strong>saw its stock price increase by 0.9 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest negative contribution to the index was sourced to <strong>Crane NXT<\/strong>. A 6.6 per cent decrease in its stock price resulted in a 5.37-point loss to the AGEM Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw stock price increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777018870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The AGEM Index demonstrated robust growth in August 2024, increasing by 5.5% month-on-month and 35.7% year-on-year, reaching 1,502.26 points. This positive trend was primarily driven by stock price increases in seven of its twelve constituent companies, with Konami being the largest positive contributor. Conversely, Crane NXT recorded the most significant negative impact on the index.","focusai_entities":"AGEM Index, Konami, Aristocrat Leisure Limited, Crane NXT","focusai_location":"Asia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM Index drivers?","query":"What specific market conditions or product innovations are driving the significant year-on-year growth of the AGEM Index, particularly for top contributors like Konami?"},{"label":"Crane NXT performance analysis?","query":"What operational or market-specific challenges contributed to Crane NXT's negative stock performance, contrasting with the overall positive index trend?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,163],"tags":[23731],"class_list":["post-777018817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-finance-news","tag-agem-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777018817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777018857,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018817\/revisions\/777018857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777018870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777018817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777018817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777018817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}