08:54     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 31/01/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13721.69  (+ 71.63 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6555.94  (+136.85 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1045.435 (-  1.048)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11387.59  (+ 67.01 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     932.70  (+ 11.11 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              916.27  (-  0.96 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   2019.56  (+  4.95 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3075.585 (-  9.863)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    74.184 (-  1.831)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   231.33  (-  1.03 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2096.32  (+  6.81 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4106.7   (+ 10.3  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    5994.23  (+114.30 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        701.91  (+  0.25 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1181.27  (+  9.91 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9204.05  (+ 62.27 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1467.68  (+  5.93 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1108.20  (+  9.14 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1519.63  (+ 20.17 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            2062.41  (+ 26.58 )