Asian stock markets have soared as news of a US government plan to rescue banks from risky mortgage debt brought hope of a let-up in the world's worst financial crisis in decades.
Japan's Nikkei 225 average advanced 3.2% to 11,859.75, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index shot up nearly 7% to 18,836.90.
Stock measures in China, Taiwan, South Korea and Australia were also sharply higher.
After a week of steep losses, regional markets were lifted partly by overnight gains on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average surged 410.03, or 3.86%, to 11,019.69 - the benchmark's biggest percentage point gain since October 2002.
The news powered Asian financials higher, with China's biggest lender, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd, or ICBC, rising 14%. Banks in Japan and Australia also gained.
In currencies, the dollar climbed against the yen to 106.74.
