Asia Markets 10/16/2007

October 16, 2007 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Most markets in Asia were down, ,but Shainghai rose

The Nikkei was off 1.4% to 17,138. Hitachi (HIT) fell 3.4% to 770. NTT (NTT) fell 2.4% to 531000. Softbank rose 2.9% to 2706. Yahoo Japan fell 4.1% to 49100.

The Hang Seng fell .5% to 29,380. China Mobile (CHL) rose 2.6% to 145.3. China Petroleum (SNP) fell 2.8% to 12.6.

The Shanghai Composite rose 1% to 6,092.

Data from Reuters

Douglas A. McIntyre

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