09:34     Closing Indices of the Stock Markets                                

                                                                              
        STOCK MARKET                        CLOSING AS AT 16/05/05            
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     1. HONG KONG (HSI)(13/05/05)           13866.81  (-101.47 )              
                                                                              
     2. BOMBAY (SENSEX)                      6528.03  (+ 76.49 )              
     3. JAKARTA (COMPOSITE)                  1048.787 (- 10.486)              
     4. JAPAN (NIKKEI-225)                  10947.22  (-101.89 )              
     5. KOREA (COMPOSITE)                     929.04  (+  5.85 )              
     6. KUALA LUMPUR (COMPOSITE)              889.27  (-  2.09 )              
     7. MANILA (COMPOSITE)                   1862.59  (- 19.80 )              
     8. NEW ZEALAND (NZSX 50)                2955.893 (+ 13.249)              
     9. SHANGHAI (B SHARES)                    68.559 (-  1.409)              
    10. SHENZHEN (B SHARES)                   232.01  (-  1.25 )              
    11. SINGAPORE (STI)                      2165.48  (-  6.19 )              
    12. SYDNEY (ALL ORD)                     3923.8   (- 41.7  )              
    13. TAIWAN (WEIGHTED)                    5925.88  (- 55.60 )              
    14. THAILAND (SET)                        670.76  (-  8.35 )              
                                                                              
    15. NEW YORK (S&P-500)                   1165.69  (+ 11.64 )              
    16. TORONTO (TSE 300)                    9323.28  (+ 44.83 )              
    17. U.K. (MSCI UK)                       1468.99  (-  0.89 )              
    18. U.S.A. (MSCI USA)                    1097.26  (+ 10.88 )              
    19. U.S.A. (NASDAQ 100)                  1480.68  (+ 10.05 )              
    20. U.S.A. (NASDAQ COMPOSITE)            1994.43  (+ 17.65 )