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Markets in Asia rose.
The Nikkei was up 1.1% to 18,109. Bridgestone was up 1.2% to 2815. Canon was up 1.7% to 6680. Fuji Film was up 1% to 5280. Hitachi was up .8% to 840. Honda was falt at 4620. NEC was up .2% to 638. NTT was down 1.4% to 642000. Sharp was up 2.8% to 2325. Softbank was down 1.3% to 2840. Sony was up .3% to 6380. Toshiba was down .4% to 786. Toyota was up .5% to 8220. Yahoo Japan was up 2.1% to 45200.
The Hang Seng rose .8% to 20,808. China Mobile was up 2.9% to 79.35. Cathay Pacific was up 1.8% to 21.7. China Unicom was down .4% to 10.6. China Netcom was down 2.4% to 20.28. HSBC was down .2% to 138.8 PCCW was down .8% to 4.74.
The KOSPI was up 1% to 1,465.
The Straits Times was down .1% to 3,289.
Shanghai was closed.
Data from Reuters
Douglas A. McIntyre