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La traduction devra toujours êtreconfrontée au texte source, qui fera jurisprudence. Afton Chemical CorporationJohn PietrasDirecteur adjoint - Recherche et développement804-788-5800 Copyright Business Wire 2009. (Refiles to delete extraneous text below the signoff) Stocks Asian Markets Nikkei climbs on weaker yen, hope for U.S. stimulus On track for 2nd negative week, 1st time in two months Chip shares jump on Intel, Toyota up after output cuts Hitachi down on expectations of big loss(Adds stocks, details) By Elaine Lies TOKYO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average climbed 1.3percent on Friday, with chip stocks surging after reassuringcomments from Intel Corp (INTC.O) and as a weaker yen andoptimism about a fresh U.S. stimulus package lifted sentiment.Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), the world's largest car maker,rose after it said would cut production at several North Americanplants over the next few months in a bid to cut its vehicleinventory in half.

ID:nN151555 But Hitachi Ltd (6501.T), Japan's biggest electronics maker,edged lower as it became the latest blue-chip firm to be besetwith losses. Sources said it would likely post an annual net lossof more than $1.1 billion ID:nTKG003251 Hope that steps will be taken for the U.S economy, includinghaving the U.S. government give more money to troubled banks,helped spark buying of the dollar against the yen and lifted U.S.shares which in turn triggered short-covering of exporters inTokyo. FXNEWS FRX/ "The question is whether you can really trust the rise inU.S. shares we saw yesterday," said Nagayuki Yamagishi, astrategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities. "Certainly there are expectations that things will get betterover the longer-term, but at this point things still look prettydark, making it hard to push stocks higher." The benchmark Nikkei .N225 appeared headed for its secondconsecutive week of losses for the first time since mid-November.It has so far fallen some 8 percent this week, over 700 points.The Nikkei gained 101.62 points to 8,124.93. It fell to aone-month low on Thursday and briefly broke below 8,000 Thebroader Topixrose 1.2 percent to 805.53 Optimism that the U.S.