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HKEx Announces Introduction Of China Pacific Insurance And Yanzhou Coal Mining Stock Options

Date 29/11/2010

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce China Pacific Insurance and Yanzhou Coal Mining stock options on 13 December (Monday).

Selected Contract Details of the China Pacific Insurance and Yanzhou Coal Mining Stock Options: 

 

Underlying Stock Name
(Stock Code)

Contract Size
(Shares)

Expiry Months Available on
the Commencement Day

China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co, Ltd
(2601)

1,000
(5 board lots of the
underlying stock)

 

December 2010
January 2011
February 2011
March 2011
June 2011
September 2011

Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited 
(1171)

2,000
(1 board lot of the
underlying stock)

 

December 2010
January 2011
February 2011
March 2011
June 2011
September 2011

 

For details of the contract specifications, please see Appendix B of the Operational Trading Procedures for Options Trading Exchange Participants, which are under Trading Rules in the Rules & Regulations section of the HKEx website.

Stock options turnover was up more than 22 per cent in the first 10 months of this year to 47,904,432 contracts from the same period last year, and it accounted for about 52 per cent of all turnover in HKEx’s derivatives market in the first 10 months of this year.

A table with all stock option classes available for trading at HKEx is attached.

The List of Stock Option Classes Available for Trading 

a)  Stock Option Classes with Contract Size Greater Than One Board Lot of the Underlying Stock   

 

Stock Code

Underlying Stock/ETF

Contract Size (shares)

Number of
Board Lots

1288

Agricultural Bank of China Limited 

10,000

10

1299

AIA Group Limited

1,000

5

2601

China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co, Ltd.^

1,000

5

2823

iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Index ETF*
(* This is a synthetic ETF)

5,000

50

2827

WISE - CSI 300 China Tracker*
(* This is a synthetic ETF)

1,000

5

^ Trading commences from 13 December 2010.

 

b)  Stock Option Classes with Contract Size Equal to One Board Lot of the Underlying Stock 

 

Stock Code

Underlying Stock/ETF

Contract Size (shares)

1

Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited

1,000

2

CLP Holdings Limited

500

3

The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited

1,000

4

The Wharf (Holdings) Limited

1,000

5

HSBC Holdings Plc

400

6

Hongkong Electric Holdings Limited

500

11

Hang Seng Bank Limited

100

12

Henderson Land Development Company Limited

1,000

13

Hutchison Whampoa Limited

1,000

16

Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited

1,000

17

New World Development Company Limited

1,000

19

Swire Pacific Limited A

500

23

The Bank of East Asia, Limited

200

66

MTR Corporation Limited

500

267

CITIC Pacific Limited

1,000

293

Cathay Pacific Airways Limited

1,000

330

Esprit Holdings Limited

100

358

Jiangxi Copper Company Limited

1,000

386

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation

2,000

388

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited

100

390

China Railway Group Limited

1,000

494

Li & Fung Limited

2,000

688

China Overseas Land & Investment Limited

2,000

700

Tencent Holdings Limited

100

728

China Telecom Corporation Limited

2,000

762

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited

2,000

857

PetroChina Company Limited

2,000

883

CNOOC Limited

1,000

902

Huaneng Power International, Inc

2,000

939

China Construction Bank Corporation

1,000

941

China Mobile Limited

500

998

China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited

1,000

1088

China Shenhua Energy Company Limited

500

1171

Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited^

2,000

1186

China Railway Construction Corporation Limited

500

1211

BYD Company Limited

500

1398

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited

1,000

1800

China Communications Construction Company Limited

1,000

1898

China Coal Energy Company Limited

1,000

1919

China COSCO Holdings Company Limited

500

2038

Foxconn International Holdings Limited

1,000

2318

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.

500

2328

PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited

2,000

2388

BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited

500

2600

Aluminum Corporation of China Limited

2,000

2628

China Life Insurance Company Limited

1,000

2777

Guangzhou R&F Properties Co, Ltd.

400

2800

Tracker Fund of Hong Kong

500

2899

Zijin Mining Group Company Limited

2,000

3328

Bank of Communications Co, Ltd.

1,000

3968

China Merchants Bank Co, Ltd.

500

3988

Bank of China Limited

1,000

^ Trading commences from 13 December 2010.