08:50     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 06/01/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13712.04  (- 52.32 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6367.39  (- 91.45 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1029.886 (+ 14.455)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11492.26  (+ 54.74 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     871.28  (- 13.91 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              910.42  (+  2.46 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   1859.80  (- 15.57 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3093.757 (+  6.365)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    78.331 (+  1.034)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   225.79  (-  0.39 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2089.82  (+ 18.78 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4033.3   (- 10.2  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    5982.12  (-  6.25 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        693.62  (+ 10.12 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1187.89  (+  4.15 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9064.26  (+ 43.21 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1455.90  (+  5.29 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1113.98  (+  3.81 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1557.52  (-  6.24 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            2090.00  (-  1.24 )