08:50     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 22/03/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13776.47  (- 57.88 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6535.45  (-121.24 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1152.601 (+  1.042)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11841.97  (- 37.84 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     980.41  (+  1.14 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              878.63  (-  6.99 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   1999.15  (- 34.63 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3127.335 (- 13.501)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    77.958 (-  1.528)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   261.86  (-  1.79 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2176.41  (-  1.11 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4225.5   (- 30.2  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    6018.79  (- 40.17 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        699.53  (-  5.50 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1171.71  (- 12.07 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9647.22  (- 46.33 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1492.80  (+  1.15 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1100.63  (- 11.12 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1465.09  (- 19.36 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            1989.34  (- 18.17 )