08:53     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 18/02/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     14087.87  (+120.05 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6584.32  (-  4.97 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1092.493 (+  9.515)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11660.12  (+ 77.40 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     984.10  (+ 11.54 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              907.75  (-  4.87 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   2085.93  (- 11.06 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3157.147 (-  6.862)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    77.188 (-  0.388)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   245.64  (-  1.41 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2168.86  (+  4.66 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4151.8   (-  2.8  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    6115.43  (+ 43.27 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        737.50  (+  2.82 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1201.59  (+  0.84 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9658.75  (+ 39.49 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1525.83  (-  0.55 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1127.04  (+  0.88 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1515.40  (-  3.89 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            2058.62  (-  2.72 )