Asia Watch

By RAY HEATH
Updated: 00:00 BST, 13 July 2001

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ASIAN 投資家s were cashing in today after winning their bets that Microsoft would pull US markets ahead 夜通し.

The 5% leap in the Nasdaq 索引 誘発するd by better 収入s news from Microsoft 奮起させるd 利益（をあげる）-taking around the 地域, taking most markets modestly lower as 投資家s also 選ぶd to stay in cash while they waited to see what the 週末 would bring.

投資家s were also keeping a 用心深い 注目する，もくろむ on Argentina's 負債 危機. 分析家s said Asia was ありそうもない to be 攻撃する，衝突する by fallout, but the South American 明言する／公表する's 状況／情勢 was seen as another 推論する／理由 for 警告を与える.

Japan's Nikkei 225 paused for breath after a 殺到する of 400 points yesterday, and fell 52.8 points to の近くに at 12,355.15. Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan also 再開するd their 最近の downward 傾向 after break-away 伸び（る）s yesterday.

In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng 索引 slipped 47.41 points, finishing at 12,612.79. Japan's 輸出業者s continued to 持つ／拘留する their ground on prospects of a 女性 yen 上げるing sales and 本国に送還するd 利益（をあげる）s. Office 器具／備品 巨大（な） Canon fed these hopes with a 予測（する） of an 84% rise in first-half income.

Canon 株 were mildly better on the news, which 上げるd other 輸出業者s 含むing Nissan and Honda, but the 堅固に守るd 悲観論主義 about the 見通し for 半導体素子 sales returned to 押し進める 負かす／撃墜する 科学（工学）技術 在庫／株s.

Hong Kong 投資家s, hoping for news today of a successful 企て，努力，提案 by Beijing for the 2008 オリンピック, pounced on Beijing 企業s, which has hotels in the 本土／大陸's 資本／首都, and the 在庫／株 rose 1%, although any 利益s are years away.

取引-hunters moved in on HSBC Holdings, and in 早期に 貿易（する） the 在庫／株 rose HK$2 from its 夜通し London の近くに of HK$86, but 疑問s about its medium-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 業績／成果 固執するd に引き続いて the 最近の 洪水／多発 of downgrades by 地元の 分析家s. 売買業者s now see the 在庫／株 罠にかける in an HK$85 to HK$90 範囲 until it 明かすs its results on 6 August.

Taiwan 在庫／株s 退却／保養地d after 早期に 伸び（る）s as the country's 主要な think-戦車／タンク halved its earlier 予測（する）s for 甚だしい／１２ダース 国内の 製品 growth, which it says will now be no more than 2.38% as 投資 was eroded by 非，不，無-成し遂げるing 貸付金s.

The 楽観主義 on 科学（工学）技術 在庫／株s was 消滅させるd by 警告s from 最高の，を越す computer group Acer that it would be hard 押し進めるd to make an operating 利益（をあげる） this year, and the 負わせるd 索引 fell 147.86 points to 4,485.68.

恐れるs of big 落ちるs in 収入s at 半導体素子 巨大（な） Samsung 半導体 pulled South Korea's Kospi 負かす／撃墜する fell 2.1%, or 11.46 points, to 548.49, its lowest finish in almost three months.

落ちるs in Singapore were tempered by a strong jump in 所有物／資産／財産 developer Marco Polo on news of a 株 buyback. The rise 相殺する losses in bank 在庫／株s, but the 海峡s Times 索引 fell 15.87 points to 1,656.94.

In Australia, modest 前進するs in News 会社／団体, 国家の Australia Bank and BHP Billiton pulled the All Ordinaries 索引 up 4.3 points to 3342.1 at the の近くに.

South-East Asia's smaller markets pulled ahead, led by Malaysia, where the Kuala Lumpur 合成物 会社／堅いd 11.2 points to 617.05 and Indonesia's Jakarta 合成物 rose 4.662 points to 446.128. But Thailand's SET 索引 slipped 0.69 to 314.31.

? Prices and indices in this 報告（する）／憶測 are from さまざまな sources and calculated at different times and may not always match those 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d どこかよそで on the 場所／位置.