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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Asia Markets 10/18//2006 Yahoo Japan, Toshiba, Softbank, Japan Tobacco Up

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

Asian markets were mixed.

The Nikkei was up .3% to 16,653. Canon was down .3% to 6440. Daiwa Securities was up 1.4% to 1408. Fast Retailing was up 2.1% to 11370. Hitachi was up .1% to 701. Honda was down .7% to 4070. Japan Tobacco was up 6.1% to 506000. NEC was flat at 681. NTT was up 1.1% to 616000. Docomo was down 1.5% to 189000. Softbank was up 5.6% to 2645. Sony was up .4% to 4810. Toshiba was up 2.8% to 763. Toyota was up .3% to 6790. Yahoo Japan was up 3.7% to 48,650.

The Hang Seng was up a fraction to 18,016. Cathay Pacific was up .5% to 16,7. China Mobile was down .3% to 58.6. China Netcom was down .9% to 13.98. HSBC was up .1% to 147. PCCW was up .2% to 4.73.

The KOSPI was up .2% to 1,354.

The Straits Times was down .1% to 2,634.

The Shanghai Composite was up 1.3% to 1,787.

Data from Reuters.

Douglas A. McIntyre
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