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Markets in Asia were mixed with Hong Kong higher.

The Nikkei was down .5% to 17,665. Canon was flat at 6580. Fuji Film was down 1.8% to 4970. Hitachi was down .3% to 937. Honda was down 2.1% to 4100. NEC was down .7% to 665. NTT was down 1.1% to 610000. Docomo was down 1.4% to 212000. Softbank was up 1.1% to 2845. Sony was down .5% to 6410. Toyota was down .3% to 7470. Yahoo Japan was flat at 40000.

The Hang Seng was up .7% to 20,360. China Mobile was up .5% to 71.7. China Netcom was up 1.9% to 20.35. China Unicom was up 1.9% to 11.72. HSBC was up 1.2% to 138.7. PCCW was flat at 4.71.

The KOSPI was down .1% to 1,499.

The Straits Times was up .4% to 3,415.

The Shanghai Composite was up 1.3% to 3,444.

Data from Reuters

Douglas A. McIntyre