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By Saeromi Shin

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Shares of the following companies had unusual moves in South Korea trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses and prices are as of the close in Seoul.

The Kospi Index rose 2.7 percent to 1 Rolex replica watches,875.41, its highest close since Dec. 12. The gauge fell 11 percent last year.

Refiners: SK Innovation Co. (096770 KS) added 6.4 percent to 149,500 won. GS Holdings Corp. (078930 KS) gained 3.7 percent to 53,300 won. S-Oil Corp. (010950 KS) rose 4.5 percent to 105,000 won. Refining margins in Asia will remain solid in the first quarter Omega replica watches, Woori Investment & Securities Co. said in a report today.

GS Engineering & Construction Corp. (006360 KS), a South Korean builder, rose 4.7 percent to 97,700 won, its highest close since Oct. 31. The outlook for overseas orders will be “favorable” in 2012 because of upcoming refinery projects in Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, Shinyoung Securities Co. said in a report today.

Hyundai Glovis Co. (086280 KS), a logistics unit of Hyundai Motor Group, added 4.5 percent to 198,500 won, halting a four- day, 9.5 percent retreat. Samsung Securities Co. raised its share-price estimate to 241,000 won from 237,000 won.

LG Electronics Inc. (066570 KS) rose 1.7 percent to 77,400 won, the highest level since Aug. 2. LG may start selling the world’s largest television using the organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, technology in the second half of this year to boost stagnating TV sales. LG will unveil the model with a 55- inch screen at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, Ken Hong, a company spokesman, said.

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By Kelvin Wong

(Updates with share prices of landlords in seventh paragraph.)

Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) — Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and Gap Inc.’s expansion in Hong Kong may help push shop rents in the Central business district up almost 50 percent over the next three years Breitling replica watches, according Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.

The U.S.-based retailers are set to open flagship stores on or near Queen’s Road Central by the first quarter of next year. Rolex Group, the Swiss watchmaker, has agreed to renew the lease for a nearby shop at a monthly rate of HK$2.4 million ($308,000), or HK$2,400 a square foot, the second-highest in the city, the Hong Kong Economic Times reported Aug. 18, without saying where it got the information.

Hong Kong’s street level shop rents rose 7.4 percent to a record in the second quarter from the previous three months after retail sales climbed and as more tourists from other parts of China visited the city, according to Colliers International. Chinese tourists to Hong Kong jumped 26 percent to 22.7 million in 2010 from a year earlier, according to the city’s tourism board. The figure reached a daily record of 122,893 on April 30 this year, according to the organization.

“The key to retail is foot traffic and exposure,” said Tom Gaffney, Hong Kong-based national director of retail at Jones Lang, the world’s second-biggest commercial brokerage, who forecasts rents in the area to rise as much as 48 percent over the next three years. In Central, “you’re seeing these international brands all expanding into one core area and that’s going to cause a huge amount of traffic to flood to one location.”

Chinese tourists account for about 30 percent of retail spending in Central, said Gaffney.

Sales Jump

Hong Kong’s retail sales jumped 28.8 percent in June to HK$31.3 billion, the biggest gain in more than a year, on tourist arrivals and low unemployment, according to government statistics.

HongKong Land Holdings Ltd., the biggest landlord in Central, fell 2 percent in Singapore as of 10:42 a.m. local time. Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd., which owns the Aon China Building where the Rolex shop is, rose 1.6 percent in Hong Kong.

The growth in Chinese tourist spending, which took off in 2004 when the country’s government began easing travel restrictions by its citizens to Hong Kong, has in the past few years lured global retailers to set up flagship stores in the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

Hennes & Mauritz AB, the world’s second-largest clothing retailer, in 2007 opened a four-story shop, its first in the city, on the western end of Queen’s Road Central, about a two minute walk from the planned Gap store. That was followed by Coach Inc., the biggest U.S. maker of luxury handbags, which opened a store on the street a year later.

Gradual Evolution

Central, in the northwest of Hong Kong Island, is home to the regional headquarters of HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank and also the city’s stock exchange and securities regulator.

Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. and Henderson Land Development Co. in 2003 opened an 800,000-square-foot shopping mall in the International Finance Centre complex, the biggest shopping mall in Central.

“In the past decade, Central has gradually evolved from a pure business district,” said Helen Mak, director of retail services at property brokerage Colliers International. “There’s now a heavier crowd even during non-business hours and a lot of that is the result of the addition of a big shopping mall and flagship stores nearby.”

Gap, Abercrombie

San Francisco-based Gap, the largest U.S. apparel chain, will in November open a 15,000-square-foot store at the ground floor of the LHT Tower Omega replica watches, according to Jones Lang. Across the street, Abercrombie of New Albany, Ohio, is scheduled to open a 32,000-square-foot shop in a space in the Pedder Building occupied by Shanghai Tang, a local high-end fashion retailer, Colliers said.

Monthly shop rents in that area, adjacent to the Lan Kwai Fong bar and restaurant district, have jumped almost 33 percent since the end of 2009 to HK$2,000 per square foot, said Mak.

That figure is still behind Causeway Bay’s Russell Street, which has the world’s third-most expensive retail space after Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris, according to Colliers.

–With assistance from Natasha Khan in Hong Kong. Editors: Malcolm Scott, Andreea Papuc

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July 25 (Bloomberg) — German stocks advanced for a fifth day, the longest winning streak in three weeks, as Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Daimler AG led carmakers higher and Leoni AG raised its earnings forecast.

BMW and Daimler rose more than 1 percent. Leoni, a maker of automotive electrical cables, jumped the most in three months. Dialog Semiconductor Plc climbed 4.2 percent after reporting second-quarter earnings. Commerzbank AG, Germany’s second- biggest bank, followed a selloff in European lenders as President Barack Obama and Congress failed to reach a deal on increasing the U.S. debt limit.

The benchmark DAX Index rose 0.3 percent to 7,344.54 at the 5:30 p.m. close in Frankfurt. The gauge climbed 1.5 percent last week after euro-area leaders agreed to a second bailout for Greece. The measure has still lost 2.4 percent from this year’s high on May 2 amid concern that Europe’s fiscal crisis will derail the economic recovery. The broader HDAX Index also added 0.3 percent today.

UBS AG strategists upgraded European equities to “overweight” and downgraded U.S. stocks to “underweight,” saying valuations in the euro region “look very attractive” compared with North America. The DAX is trading at 12.1 times its companies’ reported earnings, near the cheapest since 2008.

“With near-term concerns about Europe to the side and U.S. markets near the highs of the year, risk reward currently favors European markets,” New York-based strategist Jeffrey Palma wrote in a report to clients dated yesterday. “Last week’s commitment by European Union leaders to the euro-zone project has helped to calm fears.”

BMW, Daimler

BMW and Daimler, the world’s biggest makers of luxury cars, climbed 2.7 percent to 73.52 euros and 1.1 percent to 53.04 euros, respectively. Carmakers were among the best performers across Europe today.

Leoni rallied 5.5 percent to 42.22 euros after saying it expects sales of about 3.6 billion euros and earnings before interest and taxes of about 230 million euros in fiscal 2011. Its earlier target was revenue of about 3.4 billion euros and Ebit of about 210 million euros.

Dialog Semiconductor gained 4.2 percent to 14.65 euros, the highest in more than two months, after the supplier of complex analog and digital integrated circuits posted second-quarter Ebit of $13.1 million.

Sartorius AG preferred shares jumped 6.2 percent to 34.08 euros, the biggest gain in almost two months. The maker of laboratory scales and filtering equipment raised its forecast for 2011, saying sales in constant currencies will grow by 8 percent to 10 percent and operating earnings before interest, taxes and amortization as a share of revenue will rise to 14.5 percent to 15.5 percent.

Norma, Nordex

Norma Group rose 2.3 percent to 18.87 euros as the maker of fasteners and joining technology raised its forecasts for growth in sales and operating earnings.

Nordex SE added 1.2 percent to 5.24 euros as the alternative-energy company’s U.K. unit won an order to supply 21 wind turbines to the Scottish Baillie Wind Farm.

Commerzbank lost 4 percent to 2.71 euros, ending three days of gains. Banking shares posted the worst performance among 19 industry groups in the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index, declining 2.8 percent.

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner told Republicans that there’s no agreement on a plan for raising the ceiling before a default threatened for Aug. 2, risking a cut to the nation’s AAA credit rating. As Democrats and Republicans endorsed dueling plans for raising the debt ceiling, China, the top holder of American debt Omega replica watches, said it remains confident an agreement will be reached before the deadline, according to Xia Bin, an adviser to the People’s Bank of China.

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MANILA, Philippines – Boxing referee Kenny Bayless has apologized to 8-division boxing champ Manny Pacquiao for ruling that Pacquiao’s fall in the 10th round of his match with Shane Mosley was a knockdown.

Pacquiao said Bayless went to his corner after the match and admitted that he made a bad call when he ruled Pacquiao’s fall as a knockdown.

"After the 12 rounds Cartier replica watches, he went to my corner and said he made a mistake. He didn’t see it. I said it was OK. Part of the game," Pacquiao told radio dzMM anchor Noli de Castro.

The 8-division champ was pummelling Mosley when he slipped and fell to the mat during the 10th round. Bayless immediately ruled the fall as a legitimate knockdown and gave Pacquiao a standing 8-count, infuriating the Pacman.

A replay later showed that Mosley had stepped on Pacquiao’s right foot before shoving Pacquiao to the canvass.

During the interview, Pacquiao said he knew he could easily beat Mosley after knocking him down in the 3rd round. He said he got frustrated with Mosley and told him to keep boxing and not turn the match into a running game.

"Mosley said in the prescon after the fight that he really felt my punches because I punched him really hard. He was too scared to open up because he was afraid of being knocked down," he said.

"I added the counterpunch because Mosley wanted a lucky punch to knock me out. I waited for him to punch so I could counter but then he kept running. I was telling him in the ring  – sumuntok ka naman (throw some punches)," he added.

He also admitted that he was bothered by a cramp on his left leg, which he blamed on lack of leg exercises. "Tinigil kasi namin yung exercise sa paa kaya nagbalik yun," he said.

While seemingly dissatisfied with his lopsided victory, Pacquiao said he is thankful for once again bringing honor to the Philippines.

He also dismissed plans of retiring anytime soon especially after such an easy fight.

"I can still retire but boxing is my life. The minute I feel lazy about training and I feel my body getting weak, that’s when I will retire. But right now, I still feel strong, my moves are still fast Omega replica watches, the power is still there and my thirst for training is still there. No need to quit," he said.

President Benigno Aquino III called Pacquiao after the match to congratulate him and even thank him for wearing yellow gloves in the match.

Pacquiao said Paris Hilton also came up to him after the match and said she idolized Manny.

Pacquiao is set to leave for the Philippines on May 12 and will arrive on the 14th. He said he plans to coordinate with Bahay Kalinga and Vice-President Jejomar Binay to provide housing for poor Filipinos.

He also said he will pray for Filipinos in the Bicol region who were affected by the recent storm. "Sa Bicol region sa mga nasalanta ng bagyo, maraming salamat at ipagdadasal ko kayo at titignan ano maitutulong ko," he said.

MANILA, Philippines – Research organization Ibon Foundation has urged the government to approximate any planned wage hike for Metro Manila workers to the estimated family living wage.

Workers in the capital are expected to receive a pay increase this week Rolex replica watches, but the National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) has hinted this may be lower than what labor groups had petitioned.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has petitioned for a P75 increase, while Kilusang Mayo Uno has called for a P125 hike.

Based on 2000 prices, Ibon said the value of the current P382 minimum wage has eroded to P235 due to inflation Omega replica watches, and this is less than the daily NCR minimum wage of P250 in November 2000.

Ibon said the family living wage is already twice the daily minimum wage, and a P125 increase will not make up for the inflation-induced reduction in basic salary.

"Latest family living wage estimate from NWPC was already P917 in NCR (National Capital Region) in September 2008, or a shortfall of P535," Ibon noted.

The minimum wage in NCR has been unchanged since September 2008.

"Record unemployment and dismally poor wages are among the most important reasons behind increasing poverty in recent years, and these are solid reasons for a wage hike of a decent level," Ibon said.

"It also highlights the importance of shifting from a foreign investment and export-led growth model to a more equitable wage-consumption-and domestically driven development path."

Employers in the metro, however, cautioned against any increase in basic wage, saying this may have an impact on the economy and the country’s unemployment problem.

"Ngayon ang pinagtutuunan ng pansin ng mga employer ay ang 10 milyon na Filipino na walang trabaho at underemployed. Mas gusto sana namin na ma-cover ang walang trabaho at underemployed kaysa sa magdagdag ng sahod ngayon (The employers are more focused on the 10 million Filipinos that do not have jobs and are underemployed. We would like to solve this problem rather than increase salaries)," Ed Lacson, president of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines, earlier told ABS-CBN.

Lacson added that a pay increase would be expensive for employers who will have to spend more for overtime pay and miscellaneous payments, including contributions to Pag-IBIG Fund and Social Security System.

HONG KONG, July 3 (Reuters Life!) – A luxury mansion belonging to Kung Fu legend Bruce Lee in Hong Kong may be preserved as a museum, giving belated recognition to one of the city’s most famous sons Omega replica watches, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Billionaire philanthropist tycoon Yu Panglin had put Lee’s two-storey, 5,699-square-foot town house in an upscale leafy Kowloon suburb up for sale but later changed his mind, according to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post.

“I will consider the views of the community and different parties. I may consider donating the property if the majority thinks we should preserve it,” Yu said in the report, adding he had turned down an offer of HK$105 million ($13 million).

Lee, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1973, aged 32 Breitling replica watches, starred in such Kung Fu classics as “Fist of Fury”, “Game of Death” and “Enter the Dragon”.

He is revered both by martial arts adherents and movie buffs the world over for popularizing the Kung Fu cinematic genre, and helping usher in a golden age of Hong Kong film in the late 60s.

Despite intense lobbying by fans, Hong Kong has done little to preserve the U.S.-born star’s legacy in his adopted city beyond erecting a statue along the city’s famous waterfront.

“That would be fantastic news because fans and the community wouldn’t have the money to buy out this property,” Michael Tien, a member of Hong Kong’s Bruce Lee fanclub, was quoted as saying.

The government said it would consider the possibility of converting Lee’s spacious home into a museum, taking as a model other memorial sites to global stars, including the Beatles Story in Liverpool and Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in Tennessee.

“We think the community would like to see a creative solution that would involve the private sector,” a Hong Kong tourism official was quoted in the paper as saying.

MANILA, Philippines – Nonito Donaire Jr.’s spectacular victory over Fernando Montiel of Mexico was chosen by the World Boxing Council (WBC) as 2011’s Knock out of the Year.

Boxing Scene reported that WBC hailed Donaire’s devastating second-round knockout of Montiel in February last year as the best stoppage in 2011.

The Filipino Flash sent Montiel crashing to the canvass in the second round following a counter left hook to the face.

Although the dazed Montiel was allowed to continue the fight Breitling replica watches, he wasn’t able to survive Donaire’s finisher.

Donaire took home the WBC and WBO bantamweight titles following the win.

The same stoppage also earned a citation from ESPN Omega replica watches, Sports Illustrated and Ring Magazine.

Donaire went on to defend the titles against Argentina’s Omar Andres Narvaez last October.

He is scheduled to fight Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. for the WBO super bantamweight crowns on February 4.

BOSTON – More than half of all Cesarean deliveries are done by choice and more than a third are done too early, putting the babies at risk of breathing and other difficulties, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday.

The study of 13,258 births found that the risk of complications doubled if an elective C-section was performed at 37 weeks, when the baby is classified as full term, instead of at 39 weeks when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) regards the operation as safe.

At 38 weeks, the risk of complications was 50 percent higher, the researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"Even those deliveries done about three days prior to 39 weeks still have an increase in these adverse outcomes," said Dr. Alan Tita of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who led the study.

Despite the ACOG guidelines, 36 percent of the babies were delivered early Breitling replica watches, and the research may have underestimated the risk of complications.

One reason: the study was done at 19 academic hospitals where doctors are usually more attuned to national guidelines. "The assumption is it may be higher if we looked at private physicians in the community," Tita said in a telephone interview.

Another reason is that the researchers had no way of knowing whether a C-section was done after doctors had performed an amniocentisis to confirm that the fetus’ lungs had matured. If those cases had been excluded, the risk of early delivery would have been even higher, he predicted.

Why are so many infants being delivered early?

"There is usually this sense that 37 weeks is full term. That’s our standard practice," said Tita.

"So women Omega replica watches, I believe, when they attain this gestational age, are tired of the pregnancy, they’re excited to see the newborn and they start asking to be delivered. So I think part of it is the pressure from the patients who want to be delivered and physicians who want to accommodate their patients."

In a commentary, Dr. Michael Greene of Massachusetts General Hospital said the profile of women who delivered early suggests that they were more likely to be eager to have their own doctor do the delivery.

"To accommodate busy schedules and to minimize the chance that a patient will begin labor and require a nonelective procedure when her doctor might not be available, procedures are frequently scheduled just before 39 weeks of gestation," he said.

The study suggests doctors should not wait too long either. The complication rate rose after 41 weeks, "leaving a relatively narrow two-week window of minimal risk in which elective repeat Cesarean deliveries could optimally be performed," said Greene.

MANILA, Philippines – Azkals midfielder Phil Younghusband has responded to actress Angelica Panganiban’s tweet regarding the latter’s stand on his decision to pursue his acting ambitions.

In an interview with ABS-CBN News on Thursday, Younghusband said Panganiban must have misinterpreted the report that he is doing an independent film.

Younghusband clarified that his role in the upcoming movie is his way to promote football.

“I don’t think Angelica probably realized it. The indie film was not me acting. It’s not about me getting into acting or being an artista. It’s about football. It’s about promoting football. Maybe she just misunderstood it Breitling replica watches,” he explained.

The football player emphasized that Omega replica watches, as of the moment, his main priority is really football.

On Thursday, Panganiban voiced out her "sadness" on Twitter upon learning that Younghusband is set to appear in an independent film.

The actress’ tweet was: "Si Phil may indie film? Akala ko ba football player siya??? Lahat na lang artista na. Sad.”

According to Panganiban, it would be better if Younghusband will first devote his time to football before pursuing an acting career.

NEW YORK – Wall Street ended a five-week winning steak on Friday as the threat of rising interest rates in China prompted investors to book profits and reassess bullish positions in equities.

Investors worried tighter credit in China would curb demand for commodities, driving down energy and natural resource stocks. The two sectors were the biggest drag on the S&P.

A string of global worries, including debt problems in Ireland, have prompted investors to reassess their positions or at least buy protective options so they can define their risk, said TD Ameritrade chief derivatives strategist Joe Kinahan in Chicago.

Reflecting the concerns, the CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX) jumped 10.6 percent to 20.61, the first time the index has closed above 20 since late October. The CBOE Nasdaq 100 Volatility Index (.VXN) also surged 16.4 percent to 22.55.

"Whenever you see volatility indexes rising like this, that indicates that people are searching for protection in the options market either in the indexes, exchange-traded funds or individual equities," Kinahan said.

The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) fell 90.52 points, or 0.80 percent, to end at 11,192.58. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (.SPX) slid 14.33 points, or 1.18 percent, to 1,199.21. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) dropped 37.31 points, or 1.46 percent, to 2,518.21.

The S&P 500 dipped below its 20-day moving average on Friday for the first time since September 1 but managed to close above it, in a sign that that level, currently just above 1,194, could provide strong technical support.

Stocks have stalled in recent sessions after a two-month rally that climaxed last week, when the Dow and Nasdaq hit levels not seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.

For the week, the Dow and the S&P 500 each lost 2.2 percent and the Nasdaq fell 2.4 percent. The two sectors that did the worst were financial stocks (.GSPF), down 4 percent for the week, and information technology stocks (.GSPT), off 3.2 percent.

U.S. December crude oil futures fell 3.3 percent on Friday and copper was off nearly 3 percent. That weighed on cyclical stocks, with aluminum producer Alcoa Inc (AA.N), the Dow’s second-largest percentage loser, slumping 2.3 percent to $13.49.

Among the Dow’s other major decliners, Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) was off 1.2 percent at $70.99, while heavy machinery maker Caterpillar Inc (CAT.N) was down 1.7 percent at $81.04. The S&P energy index(.GSPE) slid 1.4 percent, while the S&P materials index(.GSPM) lost 2.2 percent.

This is the second time the index shied away from the 1 Omega replica watches,228 area, and its chart could be drawing a bearish "double top" formation. After the last retreat from that level in April, the S&P 500 started a correction that took it down to its July lows.

The Shanghai Composite Index (.SSEC) tumbled 5.16 percent, notching its biggest percentage loss in over a year on the likelihood China’s central bank was set to raise rates to tackle inflation, a move that could pressure future growth.

"The whole commodity complex is exceptionally weak after the overnight action in China Tag heuer replica watches, and we need to see how it all plays out," said Tom Samuels, managing partner at Palantir Capital Management in Houston. "This may be the first seed of doubt about the healing power of (quantitative easing)."

In the last hour of trading, options traders were busy making short-term hedges as the market declined. Put trading surged in the SPDR S&P 500 fund (SPY.P) weekly options that expired after the close, said Scott Fullman, director of derivatives investment strategy at WJB Capital Group, in New York.

Boeing Co (BA.N) was the Dow’s top percentage loser, shedding 3.5 percent to $63.09 after Sanford C. Bernstein cut its rating on the stock to "market perform," citing more potential delays for its 787 Dreamliner.

Worries that Ireland may default on its debt as well as declines in commodity prices and an unexpectedly weak outlook from Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) helped cloud the market’s outlook, though some investors said the underlying trend is strong.

On the upside, Intel Corp (INTC.O) rose 1.5 percent to $21.53 after the chipmaker boosted its dividend.

Trading volume was about 8.12 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, compared with the year-to-date daily average of 8.72 billion.

Nearly five stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, while on the Nasdaq, four stocks fell for every one that rose.