Asia Markets And Europe Open 1/19/2009

Posted: January 19, 2009 at 4:52 am

Water_liliesMarkets in Asia were slightly higher

The Nikkei rose .3% to 8,257.

The Hang Seng was up .6% to 13.340.

The Shanghai Composite was higher by 1.7% to 1.987.

On news of a huge stimulus package for the UK, at the open the FTSE was up 1.8% to 4,,220. The Dax was higher by 1.4% to 4,426 and the CAC 40 was up 1.6% to 3,065.

Data from Reuters and MarketWatch

Douglas A. McIntyre

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