HKEx Announces Termination Of Real-Time Calculation And Dissemination Of All Ordinaries Index And Growth Enterprises Index

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) announces today (Tuesday) the termination of real-time calculation and dissemination of its All Ordinaries Index (AOI) and Growth Enterprises Index (GEI) with effect from 14 April 2003. The AOI tracks the performance of shares listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange and the GEI tracks the performance of shares listed on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM).

The S&P/HKEx LargeCap (HKL) Index and S&P/HKEx GEM (GEM) Index will replace the AOI and GEI on Information Pages 788 and 8788 of the Third Generation Automatic Order Matching and Execution System (AMS/3) respectively from 14 April 2003. The existing AMS/3 Information Page 783 (S&P/HKEx Index Series) will continue disseminating the HKL Index and the GEM Index until further notice. The AOI and GEI information currently disseminated on Line 23 of the Market Information Windows on AMS/3 Trading Terminals and at the lower left hand corner under Alert Message on Teletext screens will also be replaced by the HKL Index and the GEM Index respectively. Furthermore, the HKL and GEM indices will be displayed on a real-time basis on the front page of the HKEx website from 14 April 2003.