08:55     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 19/04/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)                     13444.09  (+ 88.86 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6134.86  (- 21.92 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1062.693 (+  2.504)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  11065.86  (+127.42 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     932.45  (+  7.45 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              867.77  (+  1.11 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   1834.06  (+ 15.19 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                2969.912 (+ 17.138)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    79.604 (-  0.030)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   256.66  (+  0.07 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2128.71  (+ 21.04 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     3996.4   (+ 59.9  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    5748.35  (+ 33.19 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        678.37  (+  1.47 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1152.78  (+  6.80 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9415.70  (+ 84.71 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1464.54  (+  8.98 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1084.11  (+  6.67 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1420.80  (+ 10.82 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            1932.36  (+ 19.44 )