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Markets in Asia were up sharply.
The Nikkei rose 1.4% to 16,076. Bridgestone rose 2.9% to 2490. Canon rose 1.7% to 6080. Daiwa Securities rose 4.4% to 1288. Fuji Film rose 2.9% to 4580. Hitachi rose 2.6% to 680. Honda rose 1% to 4010. NEC rose .6% to 546. NTT rose .5% to 580000. Sharp rose 2.3% to 1939. Softbank rose 1.3% to 2400. Sony rose .2% to 4570.Toshiba rose 3.1% to 737. Toyota rose 1.5% to 6930. Yahoo Japan rose .7% to 44700.
The Hang Seng rose .8% to 18,781. Cathay Pacific was up 1% to 18.2. China Mobile was down .3% to 64.3. China Netcom was up 3.2% to 15.48. HSBC was up .7% to 143.8. PCCW was flat at 5.05.
The KOSPI was up .8% to 1,423.
The Straits Times was up 1.4% to 2,826.
The Shanghai Composite was up .8% to 2,054.
Data from Reuters.
Douglas A. McIntyre