Markets in Asia were mostly higher.

The Nikkei rose .1% to 17,178. Hitachi (HIT) rose 1.6% to 776. Mitsubishi Motors rose 3.7% to 197. Toyota (TM) fell 1.3% to 6670.

The Hang Seng rose .9% to 28,484. China Mobile (CHL) rose 1.5% to 1316. China Netcom (CN) fell 1.9% to 23.1. China Unicom (CHU) fell 2.1% to 15.72.

The Shanghai Composite rose 1% to 5,771.

Data from Reuters

Douglas A. McIntyre