Markets in Asia were up slightly

The Nikkei rose .4% to 17,481. Canon was up .6% to 6580. Fuji Film was up 1.2% to 4890. Hitachi was down .8% to 871. Honda was up 1.7% to 4270. NEC was up .6% to 628. NTT was up 1.5% to 610000. Softbank was down .6% to 3100. Sony was up .8% to 6320. Toyota was up .5% to 7840.

The Hang Seng was up .1% to 19.706. China Mobile was down 1.9% to 70.9. China Netcom was up .9% to 18.5. HSBC was up .6% to 137.3 PCCW was up .4% to 4.72.

The KOSPI was down .1% to 1,447.

The Straits Times was down .3% to 3,211.

The Shanghai Composite was up .1% to 3,074.

Douglas A. McIntyre