Asia Markets 10/24//2006 Japan Air, Yahoo Japan Up, NTT, KDDI Down

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

Markets in Asia were narrowly mixed.

The Nikkei was of less than .1%. to 16,780. Bridgestone was up 1.8% to 2555. Comsys was up 2.5% to 1291. Dentsu was up 1.9% to 323000. Fuji Film was up .2% to 4470. Fujitsu was up 2.4% to 1036. Hitachi was up 1.6% to 703. Honda was up .2% to 4110. Japan Air was up 2.3% to 221. KDDI was down 7.1% to 728000. Mitsubishi Motor was up 2. 4% to 210. NEC was down .1% to 680. NTT was down 1.9% to 618000. Docomo was down 2.1% to 184000. Sharp was up .7% to 2100. Softbank was down 1.1% to 2655. Sony was up 1.3% to 4830. Toshiba was up .7% to 769. Toyota was up 1% to 7030. Yahoo Japan was up 8.8% to 49500.

The Hang Seng was up .4% to 18.161. Cathay Pacific was up 1.9% to 17.22. China Mobile was up 1.7% to 60.15. China Unicom was up 1.5% to 8.28. HSBC was down .2% to 146.9. PCCW was up .8% to 4.71.

The KOSPI was up .1% to 1,367.

The Shanghai Composite was up 2.6% to 1,805.

Data from Reuters.

Douglas A. McIntyre