Asian stock indexes up to December 24, 2010

/IRBIS, December 24, 2010/ - As a result of trading December 24, 2010 Value of Asian stock indexes sites was as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------- Trend (in %) for ------------------------ Dec. 24 , from the History max. ** 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ---------- --------- ------ ------- --------- --------------- STI 3,143.80 +0.19 +0.22 +8.50 3,875.77 SET 50 711.65 +0.003 +1.65 +36.67 915.03 HSI 22,833.80 -0.30 -0.83 +4.40 31,638.22 Kospi 2,029.60 -0.39 +5.38 +20.61 2,064.85 Nikkei 225 10,279.19 -0.65 +2.48 -2.53 18,261.98 SSEC 2,835.16 -0.70 -0.87 -13.49 6,092.06 ------------------------------------------------------------- ** rows,sorted,in,descending,order,a,day ** historic,maximum,for,the,whole,history,of,index,calculation Today Indexes of Asian stock markets have closed mostly in negative territory. The pressure exerted decline in prices of basic industrial metals before, as well as growth of the Japanese yen yesterday, when the country's markets were closed. Yesterday, the index of metals, London Metal Exchange, which takes into account including the cost of copper and aluminum, fell by 0.8%. In addition, affected and that the markets of Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore were closed early on the eve of Christmas. HSI - Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main index calculated on the basis of shares of 45 companies whose capitalization is 67% Hong Kong Stock Exchange. SSEC - the key index calculated based price changes for all papers A and B Listing Exchange Shanghai Stock Exchange. STI - Singapore's main stock index sites calculated FTSE on the basis of changes in capitalization of 30 stocks included in the SGX Mainboard. Nikkei 225 - Japan's major stock index is calculated as a weighted average of prices of shares 225 most actively traded companies' first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. List of companies covered by the Nikkei 225 index is reviewed at least once a year in December. JCI - calculated on the basis of capitalization of all shares of customary Listing Indonesia Stock Exchange. KOSPI - Korean stock index which includes all companies whose shares are traded on the Korea Stock Exchange. SET 50 - calculated on the basis of the 50 most liquid shares having a maximum capitalization on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. [2010-12-24]