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Asia Markets 12/19/2006 Softbank, Yahoo Japan, China Netcom Down

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Stocks:  (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(NTT)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CN)(HBC)(PCW)

Asian markets were off sharply.

The Nikkei was down 1.1% to 16,777. Bridgestone was down 1.1% to 2660. Canon was down .6% to 6680. Daiwa Securities was down 1.6% to 1317. Fuji Film was down 1.2% to 4860. Hitachi was down .8% to 712. Honda was down .9% to 4320. Japan Tobacco was down 5.7% to 534000. NEC was down 2.3% to 559. NTT was down 1% to 594000. Sharp was down 1.4% to 2055. Softbank was down 3.5% to 2440. Sony was down 1.8% to 5060. Toshiba was was down .5% to 776. Toyota was down .5% to 7450. Yahoo Japan was down 4.7% to 49000.

The Hang Seng was down 1.2% to 18,965. Cathay Pacific was down 2.2% to 18.56. China Mobile was down 2.3% to 61.7. China Netcom was down 2.9% to 18.26. HSBC was down .4% to 141.2. PCCW was down 1% to 4.73.

The KOSPI was down .4% to 1,428.

The Straits Times was down 2.2% to 2,897.

The Shanghai Composite was up 1.4% to 2,364.

Data from Reuters

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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