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Markets in Asia rose sharply.
The Nikkei was up .4% to 17,407. Bridgestone was up .2% to 2515. Canon was up 1.3% to 6230. Fuji Film was flat at 4880. Hitachi was up 2.5% to 807. Honda was up 2% to 4620. NEC was up .5% to 595. NTT was up 3% to 628000. Docomo was up 2.6% to 198000. Sharp was up 1.7% to 2150. Softbank was down 1.4% to 2850. Sony was up 2.5% to 5940. Toshiba was down .1% to 736. Toyota was up 1.8% to 7960. Yahoo Japan was up .4% to 48250.
The Hang Seng was 1% to 20,855. Cathay Pacific was up 1.5% to 20.75. China Mobile was up 3.1% to 75.75. China Netcom was down 1.4% to 19.82. China Unicom was down 3% to 9.99. HSBC was up .6% to 142.7. PCCW was down .2% to 4.7.
The KOSPI was up .8% to 1,429.
The Straits Times was up .1% to 3,227.
The Shanghai Composite was up 2.4% to 2,676.
Data from Reuters
Douglas A. McIntyre