Asia Markets And Europe Open 12/20/2008 (TM)(SNE)

Posted: December 30, 2008 at 3:17 am

JapMarkets in Asia were mostly higher.

The Nikkei was up 1.3% to 8,860, but was down 42% for the year. Toyota (TM) fell modestly, and Sony (SNE) rose.

The Hang Seng fell .3% to 14,281.

The Shanghai Composte was down 1% to 1,833.

In Europe, the FTSE opened up .8% to 4,352. The Dax rose up 1.3% to 4.764 and the CAC 40 was up .9% to 3,152.

Data from Reuters.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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