Manila - Philippine share prices plummeted for the second straight session on Friday, closing 4.14 per cent lower on overnight losses in Wall Street.

The 30-share composite index of the Philippine Stock Exchange lost 76.43 points to close at 1,765.90. On Thursday, the index declined
3.45 per cent to finish at 1,842.33.

A total of 820.15 million shares worth 1.16 billion pesos (23.38 million dollars) were traded.

Losers swamped gainers 79 to 11, while 34 issues were unchanged.

Sydney - Australian stocks went on a roller-coaster ride Friday, losing more than 3 per cent on the bell but ending the session almost 2 per cent higher.

The ASX 200 added 63 points, or 1.8 per cent, to 3,416. The choppy trading came as the market realized a 50-per-cent fall from its November 2007 peak.

It's the second-worst bear market since shares fell 59 per cent in 1973-74 and had Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens anxiously trying to take investors out of dumping more stock.

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Mumbai, Nov 20 : The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)''s Sensitive Index (Sensex) tumbled more than five per cent on Thursday, led by losses in top-listed Reliance Industries and financial stocks, joining the rest of Asia in a broad sell-off after U. S. markets plunged.

By noon, the 30-share BSE index was down five per cent at 8,335.02, after falling as low as 8,316.39.

This was its lowest since October 27, when it touched a three-year low of 7,697.39.

The 50-share National Stock Exchange (NSE) index was down 4.33 per cent at 2,520.90.