Tunisia Central Bank, Kingboard, Hong Long, Sri Lanka: Asia Bond Alert

(Bloomberg) -- PT Mobile-8 Telecom, an Indonesian
mobile-phone operator that counts Qualcomm Inc. as an investor,
and Hong Long Holdings Ltd., a Chinese developer, are among
borrowers seeking to sell at least $5.6 billion of bonds in Asia,
according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Governments and companies in Asia sold $43.8 billion of
debt denominated in dollars, euros and yen this year, up from
$38.2 billion a year earlier, Bloomberg data show. Sales of
Samurai bonds, yen debt sold by foreign entities in Japan, rose
to 1.4 trillion yen ($11.8 billion), from 741 billion yen in the
whole of 2006.


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U.S. Stock-Index Futures Advance; Qualcomm, National Semiconductor Rise

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures gained as
investors said the economic and earnings outlook makes shares a
good buy following this week's equities sell-off.

Qualcomm Inc., the world's second-biggest maker of mobile-
phone chips, increased in Europe after a trade agency said its
chips can continue to be sold in phone models already on the
market. National Semiconductor Corp. surged after the company
reported profit that beat analysts' estimates.


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