08:51     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 23/02/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13957.94  (-132.58 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6582.50  (-  6.91 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1102.926 (+  3.013)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11500.18  (- 97.53 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     968.43  (-  9.37 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              899.68  (-  5.07 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   2042.78  (+ 50.51 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3146.318 (- 16.068)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    81.022 (+  0.038)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   260.84  (+  2.04 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2136.42  (- 10.31 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4103.3   (- 35.2  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    6121.52  (+ 14.35 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                              CLOSED                    
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1190.80  (+  6.64 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9675.69  (+ 35.22 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1505.45  (- 12.67 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1116.72  (+  6.16 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1497.09  (+  3.02 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            2031.25  (+  0.93 )