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...gain. Stocks in Korea and Singapore also ended sharply higher, gaining 3.8% and 6.6% respectively. India's Sensex added 7.7%, while China's CSI 300 index, which measures both the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, was up 4.12%. Japan's stock market, which last week suffered the worst rout in its history, was closed Monday for a holiday. "I think markets took a breath and will rebound in the next few days," says Sean Tsang, senior vice president of Polaris Securities in Hong Kong...
...MSCI Asia Pacific Index finished the day up 1.2% after plummeting 16% during the previous week - the worst stock market rout suffered by the region since 1987. Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index gained 3.3% after an 8.2% drop yesterday, while Korea's Kospi index rose .6%. Japan's Nikkei index fell .5% after rising in morning trading - hardly a robust recovery, but the panic selling that marked Wednesday's 9.4% free-fall dissipated, at least temporarily...
...that has been crushed over the past year, for reasons only partly related to the global equity slump. Regulators in China hope the measure will increase liquidity and trading volume in China's markets after a decline of more than 60% so far this year. (After Monday's global rout in stocks, the Shanghai exchange ended up a tick in Tuesday's trading...
...players but also the development of better players worldwide. These effects seem to be yielding a more competitive sport overall. The men’s basketball games at the Beijing Olympics were some of the most competitive games to date; the gold medal game, for example, was not a rout by the United States but a fairly close 118-107 American win. But this is only a small benefit of the overall destructive process; the deportation of our finest hoops talent will not be benefit the NBA or its fans. As a collective, American basketball fans care little about...
...Baghdad where al-Qaeda had banned barbershops and outlawed alcohol. He had 422 men, but about 50 fled, fearing arrest by the government. The district, which is hemmed in by high concrete T-walls, was a byword for terror before locals like the sheikh joined with U.S. forces to rout the extremists...