Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Roller Coaster Day

Asian stocks ended mixed, as Tokyo shares hit a two-month high and Hong Kong stocks suffered harsh reversals from profit-taking. When we went to lunch today, the HK market was up some 300 points. After lunch, the HS Index plunged over 719 points to close at 27,479 with record turnover of HK$209 billion.

Is this the beginning of the end? Most likely not. The market was up over 1,000 yesterday for no apparent reason and surely it is due for a correction. Since mid August when the market plunged to 19,500 intra-day, we have gained a handsome 8,000 points. Surely time to take a little profit.

Market Indices
Australia All Ordinaries 6665.40 - 0.03%
Bombay Sensex* 17719.95 + 2.26%
Hong Kong Hang Seng 27479.94 - 2.55%
Japan Nikkei 17199.89 + 0.90%
Singapore STI 3754.62 - 1.03%
South Korea Composite** 2014.09 + 2.62%
Taiwan Weighted 9700.07 + 0.80%

*Intraday trading

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