Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NTT)(NIPNY)(DCM)(TM)(CHU)(CHL)(CN)(PCW)(HBC)
Stocks in Asia were sharply lower.
The Nikkei was down 3.3% to 16,642. Canon was off 2.1% to 6130. Fuji Film was was off 3.3% to 4630. Hitachi was off 2.8% to 797. Honda was off .7% to 4340. NEC was off 3.7% to 597. NTT was down 1.7% to 582000. Docomo was down 2.4% to 204000. Softbank wsa down 6.4% to 2565. Sony was down 2.9% to 5660. Toyota was down 3.2% to 7460.
The Hang Seng was off 4% to 18,665. China Mobile was off 5.9% to 67.35. China Netcom 8.3% to 10.04. China Unicom was down 7.3% to 9.13. HSBC was down 2.5% to 133. PCCW was off 1.7% to 4.61.
The KOSPI was 2.7% to 1,376.
The Straits Times was down 3.1% to 2,982.
The Shanghai Composite was down 1.6% to 2,785.
Data from Reuters.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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