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Most markets in Asia were down.
The Nikkei fell .7% to 17,540.
Canon was off 2.1%. Hitachi was down 1.6% to 921. Honda was down .7% to 4060. NEC was down 1.8% to 650. NTT was down .2% to 614000. Docomo was 1.4% to 208000. Softbank was down 1.4% to 2740. Sony was down 1.2% to 6340. Toyota was down 1.3% to 7370. Yahoo Japan was down .3% to 39400.
The Hang Seng was down .2% to 20,403. China Mobile was down 1% to 71.25. China Netcom was up 1.7% to 20.9. China Unicom was down 2.1% to 11.4 HSBC was up .4% to 139.8. PCCW was down .4% to 4.83. China Life was up 2.5% to 24.75.
The KOSPI was up .8% to 1,526.
The Straits Times was down 1.4% to 3,374.
The Shanghai Composite was up 1% to 3,531.
Data from Reuters
Douglas A. McIntyre
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