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Markets in Asia ran up.
The Nikkei rose 1.7% to 17,544. Bridgestone rose 1.3% to 2430. Canon rose 2.7% to 6440. Fuji Film rose 3.5% to 5030. Hitachi rose .8% to 921. Honda rose 2.4% to 4250. NEC rose 3% to 861. NTT rose .8% to 628,000. Docomo rose 1.4% to 222000. Sharp rose 3.1% to 2340. Softbank rose 1.3% to 3020. Sony rose 2.5% to 6150. Toshiba rose 2% to 836. Toyota rose 1.6% to 7540. Yahoo Japan dropped .7% to 41250.
The Hang Seng was up .8% to 20,157. Cathay Pacific was up 2.3% to 20.45. China Mobile was up .6% to 71.35. China Netcom was flat at 19.98. China Unicom was up 1.4% to 11.5. HSBC was up .1% to 137.1. PCCW was down .4% to 4.71.
The KOSPI was up 1.3% to 1,483.
The Straits Times was up 1.2% to 3,329.
The Shanghai Composite was up a fraction to 3,292.
Data from Reuters.
Douglas A. McIntyre