Asia Markets 11/9/2006 Yahoo Japan, Japan Air, KDDI Up; Nomura, Sharp Down

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Markets in Asia were mixed.

The Nikkei was off .1% to 16,199. Bridgestone was down .6% to 2430. Canon was up .5% to 6290. Daiwa Securities was down 1.5% to 1254. Fuji Film was down .2% to 4450. Hitachi was down .1% to 679. Honda was up .5% to 4300. Japan Air was up 1.8% to 222. KDDI was up 2.9% to 772000. NEC was down .8% to 593. NTT was up .7% to 580000. Nomura was down 2.4% to 1957. Docomo was down .5% to 181000. Sharp was down 2.4% to 2010. Softbank was up 1.7% to 2380. Sony was down .4% to 4740. Toshiba was down 1.1% to 732. Toyota was up .5% to 7270. Yahoo Japan was up 3.2% to 42350.

The Hang Seng was up .8% to 18,953. Cathay Pacific was up .8% to 17.14. China Mobile was up 1.4% to 66.1. China Netcom was up 5.4% to 16. HSBC was up .2% to 151.2 PCCW was down .2% to 5.11.

The KOSPI was 1.4% to 1,399.

The Straits Times was up .4% to 2,746.

The Shanghai Composite was up 1.6% to 1,896.

Data from Reuters.

Douglas A. McIntyre