The balance of financial assets held by households in the three months through Sept. 30 rose 0.5 percent from a year earlier to 1.396 quadrillion yen, marking its first rise in nine quarters, the Bank of Japan said Monday.
A stock market rebound -- which inflated appraisal gains on stocks and investment trusts held by households -- allowed the balance to secure its first rise since the April-June quarter of 2001, a BOJ official said.
The Nikkei average posted a sharp 1,135.94-point rise during the quarter to Sept. 30.
Households' holdings of shares in both listed and unlisted companies as of Sept. 30, as well as other forms of capital contributions, increased 9.6 percent from a year before to 102.70 trillion yen.