Asia Markets 9/29//2006 Nissan Down, Softbank, Sharp, Nippon Mining, Honda Up Sharply

Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HMC)(NTT)(DCM)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CHU)(HBC)(PCW)

Markets in Asia were mixed with the Nikkei up.

The Nikkei was higher by over .6% to 16,128. Bridgestone was down .4% to 2385. Canon was up 1.1% to 6160. Daiwa Securities was up .2% to 1378. Fuji Photo was down .4% to 4310. Fujitsu was up 1.7% to 974. Honda Motor was up 1.8% to 3970. Nippon Mining was up 2.5% to 835. Nippon Sheet Glass was up 2.4% to 555. NTT was down .9% to 580000. Nissan was down .8% to 1323. Docomo was down .5% to 182000. Sharp was up 3.8% to 2025. Sony was down .8% to 4780. Softbank was up 7.3% to 2445. Toshiba was up .7% to 766. Toyota was up .3% to 6420.

The Hang Seng was down .3% to 17.479. Cathay Pacific was down 1.4% to 15.78. China Mobile was flat at 54.9. China Unicom was down 1.7% to 7.65. HSBC was up .1% to 142.1. PCCW was down .8% to 4.76.

The KOSPI was flat at 1,371.

The Straits Times was down .4% to 2,558.

The Shanghai Composite was up .9% to 1,752.

Data from Reuters.

Douglas A. McIntyre