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Woman wearing traditional Japanese clothes tolling the opening bell to announce the opening of the market, UPSOUND: applause2. Reflection of audience and Tokyo Stock Exchange digital price board, UPSOUND: applause3. Wide...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eTokyo, Japan\u003cbr/\u003e1. Woman wearing traditional Japanese clothes tolling the opening bell to announce the opening of the market, UPSOUND: applause\u003cbr/\u003e2. Reflection of audience and Tokyo Stock Exchange digital price board, UPSOUND: applause\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Atsushi Saito, President \u0026amp; CEO, Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc., walking up to podium, UPSOUND: applause\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Atsushi Saito, President \u0026amp; CEO, Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc.:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As of this moment, this day, we launched the new computer system with which Tokyo Stock Exchange will be able to compete with any other markets in the world. And, we will do our utmost to become the leader of the global market in this new year.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Traders participating in clapping ceremony, pan to audience\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide pan down of the trading floor\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan down of the market floor to Kimono cladded women\u003cbr/\u003eHong Kong, China\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of Hong Kong Stock Exchange trading floor\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of electronic share price display board\u003cbr/\u003e10. Trader talking on phone\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of traders at desks\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close of electronic display showing Hang Seng Index, after an hour and a half of trading, up 20.22 points to 21,892.72\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francis Lun, General Manger, Fulbright Securities:\u003cbr/\u003e\"People are looking forward for growth in the major economies like the US and Europe, so the sentiment is much better, and I think although we don''t expect that much growth in the share prices, but still, I think, for the whole year, we expect at least twenty per cent growth in the stock market.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide pan of Hong Kong Stock Exchange trading floor \u003cbr/\u003eSeoul, South Korea\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide tilt-down of South Korea Stock Exchange, showing Kospi at 1684.90 (up 2.13)\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close pan of computer screen with Kospi\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close-up of moving screen\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close-up of computer screen with rates\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close-up of screen with Kospi and Asia 100\u003cbr/\u003e20. Stock exchange lobby\u003cbr/\u003eMumbai, India\u003cbr/\u003e21.Tilt up from the people walking by to the Stock Exchange building \u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of people watching business news on the screen mounted on the outer wall of the Exchange building\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Siddarth Kuwawala, stock investor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The way the results of the companies are pouring in, they are quite positive and they are quite good, so looking at that I am positive that Indian markets will perform well.\" \u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of security outside the Mumbai Stock Exchange\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (English) Siddarth Kuwawala, stock investor: \u003cbr/\u003e\"2009 was better than, much better than 2008, and we are lot of optimism for 2010 also, but this all will depend upon the domestic and the international factors. On the domestic front, we are expecting, there might be some interest rate hike, because inflation is going up, so that will directly affect the market. Now the budget will be coming up, there''ll be expectation from the budget, how government manages fiscal deficit - we have to see that.\" \u003cbr/\u003e26. Cutaway of structure of \"the Bull\" behind the bar\u003cbr/\u003eThe Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) marked its first day of trading in 2010 on Monday with a hand-clapping ceremony and the launch of a new high-speed trading system.\u003cbr/\u003eWomen dressed in traditional Japanese clothes tolled the opening bell and posed for photographers while traders clapped their hands in a ceremony to bring success in the new year.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the TSE was relaying on more than just luck - it has installed a new trading system.\u003cbr/\u003eAtsushi Saito, President \u0026amp; CEO, Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc, is hoping it will help it \"become the leader of the global market.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe TSE, the world''s second-largest bourse after the New York Stock Exchange, spent the weekend running final tests of its \"Arrowhead\" system, which can process trades in five milliseconds.\u003cbr/\u003eThat is 600 times faster than the two to three-seconds required until now, and roughly on par with its counterparts in New York and London.\u003cbr/\u003eWith the upgrade, the exchange hopes to lure traders who use automated computer programmes to make rapid and frequent transactions.\u003cbr/\u003eAlgorithmic trading, commonly used by institutional investors like pension funds, accounts for the majority of equity trading in the US and Europe but has been slow to catch on in Asia.\u003cbr/\u003eThe benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index, which gained 19 percent in 2009, fell 0.9 percent to 10,546.44 on Wednesday before the New Year holiday.\u003cbr/\u003eBut it ended Monday''s morning session up 122.97 points, or 1.2 percent, at 10,669.41.\u003cbr/\u003eSome Asian markets followed the Nikkei example and started off 2010 with moderate gains on Monday as investors weighed mixed signs from the region''s economies.\u003cbr/\u003eJapan''s stock benchmark rose 1 percent to lead the region, while crude oil prices touched 80 US Dollars a barrel.\u003cbr/\u003eInvestors were encouraged by a report showing China''s manufacturing expanded at its fastest rate in 20 months last month, the latest sign the world''s third-largest economy was continuing to grow strongly, aided by government stimulus measures.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the mood was offset by worries about another recession in Singapore after the government said the local economy shrank last quarter for the first time since early 2009.\u003cbr/\u003eSouth Korea''s Kospi added 0.5 percent to 1,691.48, Australia''s main index was up 0.2 percent and India''s benchmark gained 0.4 percent.\u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking in Seoul Francis Lun, General Manger, Fulbright Securities, said that people were looking forward \"for growth in the major economies like the US and Europe, so the sentiment is much better\".\u003cbr/\u003eA stock investor in Mumbai, monitoring the prices of the stocks in the city''s Exchange, said the results were good, adding he had a \"lot of optimism for 2010... but this all will depend upon the domestic and the international factors.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut, other markets slipped, with Hong Kong''s Hang Seng off 0.3 percent at 21,809.36 and Shanghai''s index down 0.4 percent to 3,265.51. 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