Asian stocks had a year of big gains !!

Asian stocks had a year of big gains in the last trading day 2009th European stocks were mostly up.

Trading was quiet on Thursday in Asia, with the individual markets and closed, as most stock markets increased in the region closed the year around 0.5 percent or more. The dollar fell against the yen and the euro and oil prices neared $ 80 per barrel.

The breakthrough came after Wall Street finished slightly higher, citing an economic report showing manufacturing in the Midwest of the country rose in the third month in a row. The report notes that the production and new orders and employment improved.

The last 12 months there were massive increases in Asia, among the fastest growing regions in the world and at the head of global equities this year of implementation.

Index of China, Shanghai, at the end of the year, 80 percent of main index rose 87 percent in Indonesia and many other markets, won 50 percent or more. Only Japan, the gravel between the major stock exchanges in the region. The Nikkei 225-stock index has 19 percent in 2009.

In Hong Kong on Thursday, the Hang Seng Index gained 375.88 points, or 1.8 percent to 21,872.50 and the main reference point for Australia rose by 0.8 percent.

Shanghai key index was 0.5 percent or 14.54 points to 3277.14. Elsewhere, a reference to India increased by 0.7 percent and Taiwan rose by 0.9 percent.

Markets in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines were closed for public holidays.

Since trade in Europe was launched, British FTSE 100 rose 0.4 percent and the French CAC-40 rose 0.3 percent, while in Germany DAX lost 0.9 percent. U.S. stock futures pointed to modest gains of less than 0.5 percent in the last session on Wall Street this year.

On Wednesday in the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average marked up 3.10, or less than 0.1 percent, to 10,548.51, the highest level since 1 October 2008.

With a trade remains days a year, the Dow is low to 61.1 percent of the 12-year, reached in March, but still low, 25.5 from its peak of 14,164.53 in October 2007.

The S & P 500 rose by 0.22, or less than 0.1 percent to 1126.42 while the Nasdaq composite index 2.88 points, or 0.1 percent, rose to 2291.28.

Oil prices at $ 80 a barrel in Asia, was with benchmark crude for February birth by 48 cents to $ 79.76 per barrel. The contract settling 41 cents to $ 79.28 Wednesday.

The dollar fell to 92.29 yen from 92.44 yen. The euro stood at $ 1.4411 $ 1.4340 from.

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