Asia Markets 6/22/2006

Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJIY)(HIT)(HMC)(NIPNY)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CN)
(CHU)(HBC)(PCW)

Markets in Asia were up sharply.

The Nikkei was up 3.4% to 15,135. Canon was up 3.6% to 8000. Daiwa Securities was up 5.1% to 1142. Fuji Photo was up 4.4% to 3900. Hitachi was up 2.1% to 744. Japan Airlines was up .3% to 300. Honda was up 2.2% to 7370. Konica was up 2.7% to 1347. Mitsubishi Corp was up 3.8% to 2250. NEC was up .9% to 591. NTT was up 2.6% to 552000. Docomo was up .6% to 168000. Sharp was up 4.5% to 1767. Softbank was up 2.3% to 2485. Sony was up 3.8% to 4940. Toshiba was up 2.8% to 731. Toyota was up 1.8% to 5870.

The Hang Seng was up 1.1% to 15,824. China Mobile was up 2.1% to 42.35. China Netcom was down 1.2% to 12.45. China Unicom was flat at 6.85. HSBC was up .7% to 134.8. Lenovo was up 2% to 2.525. PCCW was up 10.6% to 5.75 on word it may sell some of its assets.

The KOPSI was up 1% to 1,239.

The Straits Times Index was up 1.4% to 2,362.

The Shanghai Composite was down .2% to 1,596.

Douglas A. McIntyre