Markets in Asia rose.

The Nikkei was up .5% to 17,453. Canon (CAJ) was up .8% to 6560. Hitachi (HIT) was 2.2% to 930. Honda (HMC) was down .2% to 4090. NEC (NIPNY) was up 2.2% to 648. NTT (NTT) was flat at 607000. Docomo (DCM) was up .5% to 207000. Softbank was down 1.2% to 2555. Sony (SNE) was up .8% to 6460. Toyota (TM) was up 1.2% to 7380. Yahoo Japan was 1.3 to 38500.

The Hang Seng was up 1.1% to 20,525. China Life (LFC) was up 2.3% to 24.85. China Mobile (CHL) was up 3.3% to 74.9. HSBC (HBC) was up 1% to 144.6. PCCW (PCW) was flat at 4.83.

The Shanghai Composite was up 3.9% to 3,584.

Data from Reuters.

Douglas A. McIntyre