08:55     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 25/02/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     14157.09  (+ 96.18 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6569.72  (-  4.49 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1083.376 (- 18.643)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11658.25  (+127.10 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     996.95  (+  9.85 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              903.51  (-  0.13 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                          CLOSED                    
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3160.983 (+ 15.592)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    82.524 (+  1.511)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   259.05  (-  0.89 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2135.08  (- 17.51 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4116.4   (+ 29.8  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    6207.83  (+ 79.49 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        740.04  (+  3.15 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1211.37  (+ 11.17 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9741.37  (+ 83.63 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1512.03  (+ 10.65 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1136.37  (+ 10.80 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1526.90  (+  9.19 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            2065.40  (+ 13.70 )