08:50     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 10/03/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13856.02  (- 85.45 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6907.65  (+ 14.83 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1108.047 (-  8.761)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11864.91  (-101.78 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     998.66  (- 10.13 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              899.32  (-  4.30 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   2137.42  (- 19.72 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3195.220 (- 43.306)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    82.253 (-  1.730)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   267.46  (-  9.38 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2170.20  (- 14.09 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4199.2   (- 23.9  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    6192.53  (- 20.75 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        719.53  (-  3.05 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1209.25  (+  2.24 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9675.57  (-119.57 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1498.28  (- 10.58 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1134.26  (+  1.99 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1524.38  (+  2.40 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            2059.72  (-  1.57 )