Markets in Asia rose.

The Nikkei was up .3% to 18,212. Hitachi (HIT) was down 1.1% to 891. Sony (SNE) was down 1.2% to 6620. Yahoo Japan was down 2.2% to 42300.

The Hang Seng rose .8% to 21,759. China Mobile (CHL) was up 1.2% to 81.3. China Netcom (CN) was up 2.7% to 22. HSBC (HBC) was up 1.1% to 145.6.

The Shanghai Composite fell 2.1% to 4,182.

Data from Reuters

Douglas A. McIntyre