HKEx Announces Rollout Of Three New Stock Option Classes On 16 November

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce three new stock option classes on 16 November this year (Monday): BYD, China COSCO and Guangzhou R&F Properties.

The first table below shows contract highlights. A general contract summary is posted on the HKEx website.

Stock Option Classes to be Introduced on 16 November

Underlying Stock	Stock Code	Contract Size* (Shares)	Expiry Months Available on the First Day of Trading
BYD Co Ltd	1211	500	November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 March 2010 June 2010
China COSCO Holdings Co Ltd	1919	500
Guangzhou R&F Properties Co, Ltd	2777	400

* One board lot of the underlying stock.

Stock options turnover in HKEx's derivatives market was 39,149,413 contracts in the first 10 months of this year, or about 48 per cent of the market's total turnover.

The following table shows all pending changes to HKEx's stock option classes.

HKEx's Stock Option Classes

Stock Code	Underlying Stock	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
179	Johnson Electric Holdings Limited ^#	500
203	Denway Motors Limited ^#	2,000
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
1038	Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited ^#	1,000
1088	China Shenhua Energy Company Limited	500
1186	China Railway Construction Corporation Limited	500
1211	BYD Co Ltd ^	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 Co Ltd ^	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

^     Commence trading from 16 November 2009 .
^#     Gradual discontinuation of trading until 30 December 2009 .
*     One board lot of the underlying stock.