Asia Markets 10/31//2006 Creative Technology, NTT Down, Singapore Air Up

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Asian markets were up modestly.

The Nikkei rose .3% to 16,399. Canon was flat at 6270. Credit Saison was down 3% to 4230. Daiwa Securities was down 1.7% to 1327. Fuji Film was down .2% to 4340. Hitachi was down 2% to 675. Honda was up .2% to 4140. Japan Air was down .4% to 223. Mazda was up 2.1% to 791. Mitsubiishi Electric was up 1.9% to 1020. NEC was down .3% to 602. NTT was down 2.2% to 589000. Docomo was down 1.1% to 179000. Sharp was up 1.2% to 2085. Softbank was down 2.8% to 2560. Sony was up .2% to 4850. Toshiba was down .4% to 740. Toyota was down .7% to 3440. Yahoo Japan was down .9% to 45500.

The Hang Seng was .2% to 16,324. Cathay Pacific was up 1% to 16.98. China Mobile was up 1.4% to 63.2. China Netcom was down .7% to 13.82. HSBC was flat at 146.8. PCCW was up .6% to 4.77.

The KOSPI was up .6% to 1,365.

The Straits Times was up .1% to 2,694. Creative Technology was down 7.1% to 10.4. Singapore Air was up .7% to 15.2.

The Shanghai Composite was up 1.6% to 1,838.

Data from Reuters.

Douglas A. McIntyre