- FEAS: Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced that the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) and the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) will be added to the Dow Jones FEAS Index universe, effective after the close of trading on September 16, 2011.
The Dow Jones FEAS Indexes measure the performance of companies across the Euro-Asian region. There are three indexes in the family: a composite and two regional sub-indexes. With the addition of Egypt (77) and Kazakhstan (7), 84 new component stocks will be added to the index, making for a total of 472 component stocks.
The Dow Jones FEAS Composite Index includes component stocks of 16 of the 34 member states of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges. The exchanges include Abu Dhabi (UAE), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Amman (Jordan), Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Belgrade (Serbia), Bucharest (Romania), Cairo (Egypt), Nablus (Palestine), Istanbul (Turkey), Karachi (Pakistan), Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain), Muscat (Oman), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Skopje (Republic of Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Zagreb (Croatia). - Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange: Eshraq will be the 66th listed company on ADX since the inception of the “Exchange” in November of the year 2000.
Deputy Chief Officer and Head of Operations at ADX, Mr. Rashid Al Belooshi, welcomed the listing of Eshraq, a property development company. The company’s shares on ADX will be listed under the ticker symbol ESHRAQ. - TEHRAN SE: On 28 August 2011, trading on Bank Ansar's equity shares was started on Tehran Stock Exchange for the first time after listing. At the first day, 111.7 Million equity shares of Bank Ansar (as TSE's 10th listed bank) were traded at the price of IRR 2,650 (USD 0.25) with the total value of IRR 300 billion (USD 28.3 million). This is the second bank, publicly offering its shares in August 2011.
Shares of 7 private banks and three state banks, including Bank Saderat, Bank Mellat and Bank Tejarat, in line of privatization program, have been so far offered in the Exchange. - FEAS September Newsletter
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FEAS September 2011 Newsletter
Date 23/09/2011