Asia Markets 4/21/2008 (HMC)(SNE)(LFC)(PTR)

April 21, 2008 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Most markets in Asia were up.

The Nikkei rose 1.6% to 13,697. Canon was up 6.1% to 5380. Honda (HMC) was up 8.8% to 3330. NEC was up 7.3% to 468. Sony (SNE) was up 5.7% to 4640.

The Hang Seng rose 2.6% to 24,818. China Life (LFC) rose 4% to 29.90. China Petroleum (SNP) rose 3% to 7.56. Petrochina (PTR) rose 3.7% to 10.18.

The Shanghai Composite was up .7% to 3,117.

Data from Reuters

Douglas A. McIntyre

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