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STOCKS: Japanese stocks have today moved positively into the lunch break with

the Nikkei 225 up 19.4pts at 19826.84, post missile launch over Japan by N.

Korea the Nikkei saw a slight rally but this was short lived and it's slowly

coming down again, the large jumps coming into the week may have caused

investors to worry about the volatility and predict peaks causing a lull of

activity and into the end of the week a sell off.

- 7 of 11 sectors were in the green on the Nikkei 225 with the industrials

sector best performing, Daikin Industries saw the largest move within the sector

following the release of their consolidated reports for the last 3 months.

- The Hang Seng is currently down around 145pts at it's lowest point of the week

and the ASX Index is also down about 40pts and again at its lowest point of the

week, the markets are responding to the missile launch as though it was anti

climatic.

- The USDJPY is down today, still above 110 but earlier the missile scare

mongering caused the Yen to rally and therefore saw the USDJPY drop below 109,

it's lowest since Tuesday following risk on sentiment.