Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Sime, Maybank stocks go up!

Information on two of the biggest equities within ASB. Don't know suddenly why go up? Do you? Things are getting worse ain't it? Especially with the Maddox ponzi scheme. - Dave

KUALA LUMPUR: Sime Darby and Maybank led blue chips higher at midday on Wednesday, pushing up the 100-stock KL Composite Index up nearly 10 points on some fund buying while Asian markets were mostly higher except for Japan and South Korea.

At 12.30pm, the KLCI rose 9.54 points or 1.12% to 864.34. Turnover was 169 million shares valued at RM232mil. There were 203 gainers, 168 losers and 165 counters unchanged.