P506ORACLE 506 Mon13 Jan C4 9728:28  WORLD  1/2   Monday   HONG KONG The Hang Seng Index closed 8.33 points down at 1799.61. SYDNEY The new trading week got off to a brilliant start with buying concentrating on goldminers and sugar stocks. The industrial index closed at a recgrd high of 1,546.7 after putting on 8.3, while the gold index was up 31 point1. The All Ordinaries Index gained 6.9 to 1,051.1. JOHANNESBURG Gold shares traded mixed as the rand continued to recover and gold bullion slipped slightly. CARS * CARS * CARS * CARS * ON 496
P506ORACLE 506 Mon13 Jan C4 9718:10  WORLD  2/2   Monday   TOKYO Prices declined in the absence of incentives and trading was slow. The 225-issue average lost 21.19 to close at 12,977.02 while the TSE Index was down 0.65 points at 1,029.25. Heavy duty electricals led the decline which covered precisign instruments, giant-capital issues, cgnstructigns and housings. SINGAPORE The market ended lower in weak trading because of lack of confidence in the economy and in some stocks now under investigation. The All Share Index fell 1.17 to 237.78  City headlines 500