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To: John Hunt who wrote (16325)	9/2/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: Link Lady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

7,356.00 294.00 +4.16% Hong Kong Hong Kong markets cheer Wall Street's rebound in early trading cnnfn.com:80/markets/wires/9809/01/hongkong_open_wg/ The stock exchange said on Wednesday short selling on shares of HSBC Holdings Plc, Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd and China Telecom (Hong Kong) Ltd was temporarily suspended from Wednesday until further notice and the settlement backlog of these shares was cleared. Brokers said the government probably did not want speculators to benefit from short selling the three stocks, which might be squeezed higher on Wednesday and Thursday by short-covering.

To: John Hunt who wrote (16325)	9/2/1998 7:07:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

No yuan certainty, says Jiang scmp.com President Jiang Zemin has said he cannot "100 per cent" rule out a devaluation of the yuan, the Tokyo Shimbun said yesterday. "China has paid a great price and carried a lot of risk in deciding to keep the yuan stable," Mr Jiang told former Japanese prime minister Toshiki Kaifu and the chairman of Tokyo Shimbun. "Until now there has been no change in policy," he said, before noting "this situation cannot last forever". "Nothing in this world is 100 per cent certain." >>