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Tokyo – Based on strong U.S. targets and rising commodity prices have the majority of Asian stock markets closed on Thursday in positive territory. Among other things, won the Hang Seng (news) 2.1 percent, the SET index by 1.4 percent and 1 percent of the TAIEX. In Tokyo, the Nikkei rose (news) index rose 1.11 percent to 9799.60 points. The TOPIX-covering took 1,61 percent to 885.69 points. The index of leading indicators has attracted Japanese in August. Thus, the index climbed to 83.3 points.

This is already in the sixth increase in a row. For July, the index was revised from 83.0 to 82.5 points after being down. The DAXglobal Asia, which includes the 40 largest stocks of emerging Asia, sets currently at 0.58 percent at 267.12 points.

The second largest Japanese retailer Aeon announced on Tuesday after the market closes that he has written in the first half in the red again, what with declining consumer spending, the ailing U.S. arm Talbots and a nonrecurring charge for credit subsidiary Aeon Credit Service related. For the current fiscal year, the company continues to expect a net profit of 7,5 until 15 billion yen. The Tokyo stock lost 1.1 percent against the trend.

Papers of the oil company INPEX rose by 2.9 percent. Title of the trading company Mitsubishi Corp.. closed 5.7 percent firmer. The shares of gold producer Sumitomo Metal Mining gained 5.4 percent after the price of gold has reached a new high. In the steel segment, Nippon Steel (Berlin: NPS.BE – news) 3.6 percent put JFE 4 per cent, 4.2 percent, Sumitomo Metal and Kobe Steel (Frankfurt: 858,737 – news) to 4.6 percent.

Fat profits have also been reported in the financial sector. Shares of MUFG bank rose by 5.1 percent. Besides SMFG improved by 7 percent and Mizuho Financial up 1.6 percent. Nomura advanced by 1.9 percent.

Shares of both automakers Mazda and Nissan climbed by just over 6 percent respectively. Toyota und Honda zogen um jeweils 0,6 Prozent an. In the technology sector pushed, including Sony (Munich: 853,687 – news) 2.9 percent, Toshiba (Berlin: TSE1.BE – news) up 3.8 percent, Canon (Berlin: NKN.BE – news) rose by 2.7 percent and Elpida Memory (Berlin: FNO.BE – news) up 6.1 percent before.

Because of the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China remains the Shanghai Stock Exchange until the 08th Closed October. In Hong Kong, won the title as the CCB bank Umsatzspitzenreiter 3.2 percent. In addition, HSBC (London rose: HSBA.L – news) 0.9 percent, ICBC (0349.HK – news) up 1.7 percent, China Life up 2.3 percent and Bank of China up 3.4 percent. In the resource sector put 3.6 percent PetroChina, CNOOC (0883.HK – news) 1.5 percent and Sinopec to 2.1 percent.

Nikkei 225 (Japan): 9.799,60 (+1.11 percent), TOPIX (Japan): 885.69 (+1.61 percent) Hang Seng (China): 21.241,59 (+2.07 percent), Shanghai Composite ( China): 2779.43 SET Index (Thailand): 741.92 (+1.44 percent), Seoul Composite Kospi (South Korea): 1.598,00 (-0.03 percent) SENSEX (India): 16.806,66 (– 0.90 percent) TAIEX (Taiwan): 7.608,66 (+0.96 percent), JSX (Indonesia): 2.513,41 (-0.58 percent) FBM EMAS (Malaysia): 8.190,50 (+0.69 percent ) STI (Singapore): 2.634,63 (+0.87 percent) PSEi (Philippines): 2.967,06 (+2.86 percent) (07.10.2009/ac/n/m)