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Markets in Asia made modest advances,
The Nikkei was up .6% to 17,507. Bridgestone was down .2% to 2640. Canon was up .9% to 6610. Fuji Film was up 1.7% to 4760. Hitachi was up 1.7% to 840. Honda was up 1.5% to 4890. NEC was up .2% to 609. NTT was up 1.3% to 629000. Sharp was up .2% to 2020. Softbank was down 2% to 2555. Sony was down .9% to 5630. Toshiba was up .6% to 810. Toyota was up 1.9% to 8150. Yahoo Japan was up .4% to 47750.
The Hang Seng was up .3% to 20,821. Cathay Pacific was down 3.1% to 20.35. China Mobile was up 2.4% to 77.5. China Netcom was up 2% to 19.36. China Unicom was up 2.9% to 10.74. HSBC was down .6% to 143.5. PCCW was down .9% to 4.66.
The KOSPI was up 1.5% to 1,383.
The Straits Times was up .4% to 3,146.
The Shanghai Composite was up .9% to 2,975.
Data from Reuters.
Douglas A. McIntyre