Wednesday December 3, 02:33 AM
Japan Hot Stocks-NTT Data, Keihin, ABC Mart, Hitachi
TOKYO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The benchmark Nikkei (news) average rose 1 percent and the broader TOPIX added 0.8 percent by midday break on Wednesday.
The following stocks were on the move:
**NTT DATA CORP GAINS AFTER BROKERAGE UPGRADE**
Shares of NTT Data (Xetra: 895009 - news) , Japan's largest domestic system integrator, climbed 3.7 percent to 340,000 yen after Mizuho Securities upgraded the stock to '2' from '3', citing its stable earnings prospects.
The stock was the second-biggest positive contributor to the Nikkei 225.
Separately, NTT Data told Reuters on Tuesday it aims to increase sales abroad by more than 10-fold by March 2013 as it eyes acquisitions in the Americas and Australia.
0200 GMT
**KEIHIN DOWN, UBS CUTS PRICE TARGET**
Auto parts maker Keihin Corp fell 3.0 percent to 736 yen after UBS Securities lowered its price target to 750 yen from 1,700 yen, along with its profit forecasts for the company, citing slowing business for both motorcycles and cars.
UBS (Virt-X: UBSN.VX - news) now expects the maker of fuel injection components, which mainly supplies Honda Motor Co (Stuttgart: 853226 - news) , to post a double-digit fall in operating and recurring profit both in the business year to March 2009 and the following year.
0125 GMT
**ABC MART JUMPS AFTER REPORTING SOLID NOVEMBER SALES**
ABC Mart Inc rallied 5.4 percent to 3,530 yen, the highest intraday level since February 2006, after the shoe retailer said its same store sales rose 6.6 percent in November from the year earlier thanks to strong sales of ladies' boots and business shoes.
0034 GMT
**HITACHI UP ON NEWS TO DEVELOP SSD WITH INTEL**
Shares of Hitachi Ltd (Xetra: 853219 - news) gained 2.7 percent to 421 yen after the Japanese electronics conglomerate said it and U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp (NASDAQ: INTC - news) would jointly develop solid state drive (SSD) memory devices, which are seen as a promising alternative to hard disk drives.
The move marks a strategic shift for Hitachi, the world's third-largest hard drive maker, which until now has not made a commitment to SSD technology.
0026 GMT
**FAST RETAILING AWASH WITH BUY ORDERS ON NOV SALES**
Shares of Fast Retailing Co Ltd (Frankfurt: 891638 - news) were untraded due to a glut of buy orders at 10,290 yen, up 5.1 percent from Tuesday's close, after it said November same-store sales at its domestic Uniqlo casual clothing chain jumped 32.2 percent from the same month a year earlier, marking the biggest monthly gain since March 2001.
0018 GMT
**HONDA SLIPS ON REPORT TO DELAY OVERSEAS EXPANSION**
Shares of Honda Motor (Paris: JP3854600008 - news) fell 1.3 percent to 1,862 yen after the Nikkei business daily reported the automaker is scaling back its overseas expansion plans, freezing a project to boost capacity in Turkey and delaying a second plant in India by at least a year.
0010 GMT
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(Reporting by Aiko Hayashi)
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