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Europe Hopes Ease Asia Higher, Europe Markets Open Up

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An ongoing believe that the problems with European debt will be addressed soon helped Asia tick higher.

The Nikkei 225 moved higher .6% to 8,696. The Hang Seng was up .73% to 19,180.

Europe exchanges also made modest moves up. The FTSE 100 was higher by .21% to 5,564. The DAX was up .44% to 6,108.

According to MarketWatch, banks did particularly well “as investors looked ahead to a meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to prepare for a key European summit later in the week.”

US unemployment data probably also helped the markets. Government information showed the the jobless rate in the US fell to 8.6% as the economy added 120,000 jobs. It is still widely believed that if the American consumer economy can regain its footing EU exporters will have a place to send manufacturered goods.

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