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A-Power wins second deal in two days, shares jump

CHINA-CLINTON/* Wins $2.9 mln deal to build power plants in China

* Shares up 12 pct

Sept 30 (Reuters) – China’s A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd on Thursday won a contract worth RMB 242 million ($2.9 million) to build power plants, its second such contract in as many days, sending its shares up 12 percent.

You have a decimal point error in the APWR story. It should be 29 million, not 2.9 million. How about a retraction/update?

J.F.C.

We did a very bad conversion. We corrected the story to change $2.9 million to $36 million: GBU Editor

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) chats with Wang Yongliang, the general manager of the Taiyanggong Gas-Fired Thermal Power Plant in Beijing February 21, 2009. REUTERS/Greg Baker/Pool

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