Stock markets climbs to new high
A stock investor gestures in front of an electronic board monitoring stock price changes at a securities trading house in Jinan, East China's Shandong Province on Monday, September 17, 2007. Led by heavy-weight financial and steel shares, China's main stock index surged more than two percent to a new all-time high despite an interest rate hike announced by the central bank after Friday's close. [newsphoto] |