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Asian markets were narrowly mixed.
The Nikkei was up .2% to 17,048. Bridgestone was up .7% to 2705. Canon was down .6% to 6650. Daiwa Securiies was down .9% to 1322. Fuji Film was up .6% to 4920. Hitachi was flat at 720. Honda was up 1.1% to 4470. Japan Tobacco was up 2.1% to 578000. NEC was down 1% to 569. NTT was down 1% to 594000. Sharp was up .5% to 2865. Softbank was down 1.8% to 2445. Sony was up .2% to 5090. Toshiba was up .1% to 784. Toyota was up 1.7% to 7680. Yahoo Japan was down 1% to 50100.
The Hang Seng was down .1% to 19,223. Cathay Pacific was down .5% to 18.7. China Mobile was down .3% to 62.7. China Unicom was 1.4% to 10.05. HSBC was down .3% to 142.1 PCCW was down .8% to 4.71.
The KOSPI was down .4% to 1,436.
The Straits Times was flat at 2,921.
The Shanghai Composite was down 1.3% to 2,343.
Data from Reuters
Douglas A. McIntyre