<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91921071230884272.post-1291948760089661795</id><published>2008-10-29T19:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T20:00:04.328-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business and finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='South Korea stocks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='global stockmarkets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stocks trading'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wall Street'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='asian markets'/><title type='text'>Asian markets advance, South Korea rises to 10pc</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SQkjIDu4BmI/AAAAAAAACB0/T-fcZNScAJE/s1600-h/asian+market.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SQkjIDu4BmI/AAAAAAAACB0/T-fcZNScAJE/s320/asian+market.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262776260906976866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite a moderate close in Thursday trading in &lt;a href="http://http//www.forbes.com/markets/2008/10/29/briefing-outlook-gdp-markets-econ-cx_ss_1029markets37.html"&gt;Wall Street&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://http//www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/business/30markets.html?ref=worldbusiness"&gt;Asian markets&lt;/a&gt; are reported to continue to advance, with South Korea gained of 10 percent on its stocks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shanghai Composite Index &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/b&gt;was a touch higher after China cut interest rates for the third time in six weeks. After the market closed on Wednesday, the Chinese central bank announced a 0.27 percentage point cut in both the benchmark rate for one-year loans by&lt;br /&gt;commercial banks, to 6.66 percent, and in the rate on one-year certificates of&lt;br /&gt;deposit, to 3.60 percent, starting from Thursday. The cut was widely expected, as the Chinese central bank's part of a worldwide effort to aid the faltering global economy, but analysts doubted it would significantly ease the stock market's key concerns at the moment, especially slumping earnings growth at listed Chinese companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://http//www.cnbc.com/id/27443674"&gt;more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/91921071230884272-1291948760089661795?l=www.marketsnmoney.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.marketsnmoney.com/feeds/1291948760089661795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=91921071230884272&amp;postID=1291948760089661795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/91921071230884272/posts/default/1291948760089661795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/91921071230884272/posts/default/1291948760089661795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.marketsnmoney.com/2008/10/asian-markets-advance-south-korea-rises.html' title='Asian markets advance, South Korea rises to 10pc'/><author><name>Trader</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13309761269649139032</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06363951870851608878'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YqYaSbT8xWI/SQkjIDu4BmI/AAAAAAAACB0/T-fcZNScAJE/s72-c/asian+market.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry>