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Martkets in Asia were up.

The Nikkei rose .5% to 18,914. Bridgestone was up 2.9% to 2665. Canon was up .8% to 6700. Fuji Film was down .6% to 4890. Hitachi was up .6% to 721. Honda was up 1.2% to 4250. NEC was up 1.2% to 568. NTT was down .8% to 60000. Sharp was up 1.2% to 2080. Softbank was up .4% to 2535. Sony was up 1.6% to 6050. Toshiba was down .1% to 770. Toyota was up .1% to 7380

The Hang Seng was up 1% to 19,111. Cathay Pacific was up 1.3% to 19.22. China Mobile was down .2% to 62. China Netcom was up 5.2% to 19.16. HSBC was up .5% to 141.4.PCCW was down .4% to 4.8.

The KOSPI was up .3% to 1,422.

The Straits TImes was up .5% to 2,931.

The Shanghai Composite was up 1.1% to 2,274.