South Korea's benchmark stock index fell about 2% early but closed up 0.7% Wednesday.

韩国基准股指周三早盘下挫了2%左右，但收盘上涨了0.7%。

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China's benchmark stock index, despite dropping sharply in August, is up more than 70% from its low last year in November.

中国的基准股票指数尽管8月份大幅下跌，但仍比去年11月份的低点上涨了70%以上。

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Since 1990, the benchmark stock index on the Shanghai exchange has soared 27-fold, despite a crash in 2008 and a lot of ups and downs in between.

至1990年以来，上海交易的股票指数基准飙升了27倍，不计在2008年的一次崩盘和许多次震荡。

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The island's currency in July traded at a 14-year low against the U.S. dollar, and the benchmark stock index has lost as much as 60% since April 2000.

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The benchmark stock index rose 1.4% to a record 1776.73 on Tuesday, after surging 3.4% on Monday, while Malaysia's ringgit currency gained 1.9% against the dollar in the first two trading days of the week.

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Slim-controlled companies, most of them cobbled together into two main holding companies, Grupo Carso and Grupo Financiero Inbursa, account for half of the combined market cap of Mexico's benchmark stock index, the 35-stock Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones.

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