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| KL shares mixed at mid-morning Posted: 28 Jan 2013 06:22 PM PST Share prices on Bursa Malaysia turned mixed at mid-morning today in sync with the performance of other regional bourses, dealers said. At 11.12 am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) rose 2.31 points to 1,639.44, after opening 7.89 points higher at 1,645.02. Regionally, Japan's Nikkei improved 68.63 points to 10,892.94, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 22.05 points to 23,649.83 and Singapore's Straits Times slipped 0.24 of a point to 3,273.67. On Bursa, the Finance Index chalked up 19.69 points to 14,904.08, the Plantation Index increased 11.77 points to 8,043.06, and the Industrial Index increased 20.61 points to 2,773.94. The FBM Mid 70 Index, however, lost 3.02 points to 12,152.02. Losers led gainers by 313 to 184, with 271 counters unchanged, 889 untraded and 46 others suspended. Volume stood at 387.417 million shares worth RM499.414 million. Among actives, Oriented Media Group and Daya Materials added half-a-sen each to 12 sen and 22 sen respectively, while Tebrau Teguh and Patimas lost half-a-sen each to 92.5 sen and 11 sen, respectively. Of the heavyweights, Maybank earned two sen to RM8.92, Sime Darby gained seven sen to RM9.36 and CIMB rose six sen to RM7.27, but Axiata lost two sen to RM6.35. -- Bernama |
| US stocks fall despite upbeat factory data Posted: 28 Jan 2013 03:35 PM PST NEW YORK: Stocks finished Monday mostly lower despite a stronger-than-expected manufactured durable goods report and a nearly 2 per cent lift from Caterpillar earnings. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 14.05 points (0.10 per cent) to 13,881.93. The broad-based S&P 500 fell 2.78 points (0.18 per cent) to 1,500.18. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index rose 4.59 (0.15 per cent) to 3,154.30, boosted by Apple.
But December pending home sales, which were projected to be flat, instead fell by 4.3 per cent. Monday's lacklustre equity action came on the heels of rallies that have lifted stock indices to multi-year highs. Slumping technology company Apple reversed recent losses and picked up 2.3 per cent, replacing ExxonMobil as the world's largest company by market capitalisation. ExxonMobil fell 0.7 per cent. Yahoo!, which reported stronger-than-expected earnings after the market closed, fell 0.3 per cent, but jumped 4.5 per cent in after-hours trading. Caterpillar gained 2 per cent after posting a big year-on-year drop in quarterly profit but suggesting business could pick up in the second half of 2013. Energy company Hess surged 6.1 per cent after it announced it was selling refining and terminal operations in the United States and placing more focus on exploration and production. Research in Motion, which will launch its newest BlackBerry smartphone this week, gave up 7.8 per cent. Industrial coatings maker PPG lost 2.0 per cent after the closing of the share-exchange period related to the merger of its commodity chemicals business with Georgia Gulf Corp, to become the PPG spinoff Axiall. Georgia Gulf gained 8.6 per cent. Menswear retailer Jos. A. Bank dived 15.1 per cent after warning that its fiscal 2012 profit was expected to be 20 per cent lower than the prior year, citing lower sales due to unseasonably warm winter weather. -- AFP |
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