Asia Markets And Europe Open 1/22/2009

January 22, 2009 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Old_carMarkets in Asia moved higher.

The Nikkei was up 1.9% to 8,052.

The Hang Seng rose .9% to 12,700.

The Shanghai Composite was up 1% to 2,005.

At the open in Europe,the FTSE was up 1.7% to 4,128. The Dax rose 1.2% to 4,312. And the CAC 40 was up 1.4% to 2,946.

Data from Reuters and MarketWatch.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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