08:54     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 13/04/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13799.62  (+141.57 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6467.92  (+  3.31 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1116.670 (+  5.786)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11637.52  (- 32.78 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     981.31  (-  0.48 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              874.23  (+  7.99 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   1916.58  (- 11.24 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                3051.663 (+  3.643)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    82.476 (+  1.819)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   270.87  (+  3.45 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2174.09  (+  0.53 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     4115.0   (-  8.3  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    5998.08  (+  4.19 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                              CLOSED                    
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1173.79  (- 13.97 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9492.12  (-136.90 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1497.00  (+  4.08 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1102.91  (- 13.12 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1461.68  (- 27.48 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            1974.37  (- 31.03 )