In Asia today, the Hang Seng ended the morning up 597.60 points at 30,035.73,
while the Nikkei was recently down 0.3% at 16,197.97.
New York\'s main oil contract, light sweet crude for December delivery traded at
$97.87 a barrel, up $1.17 from its all-time closing record of $96.70 in US trades.
Tuesday.