FINANCIAL MARKETS
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FINANCIAL MARKETS After their recent turmoil, all but one of the Asian stockmarkets in our table rose in the week to September 10th. Investors in Kuala Lumpur, which gained 15%, were buoyed after the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, eased recent trading restrictions and postponed several expensive construction projects. Jakarta rose by 12.2%.
This article appeared in the Economic & financial indicators section of the print edition under the headline “FINANCIAL MARKETS”
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