08:55     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 12/04/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13658.05  (-  1.88 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6464.61  (+ 67.09 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1110.884 (+  4.902)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11670.30  (- 75.34 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     981.79  (-  4.15 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              866.24  (-  3.69 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   1927.82  (+ 31.10 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3048.020 (-  3.272)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    80.657 (-  1.919)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   267.42  (-  2.84 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2173.56  (-  8.02 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4123.4   (+  7.5  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    5993.89  (+ 14.47 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        698.28  (+  3.94 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1187.76  (+  6.55 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9629.02  (- 14.70 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1492.92  (-  7.70 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1116.03  (+  6.43 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1489.16  (+ 10.61 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            2005.40  (+ 13.28 )