HKEx Noteworthy Market Statistics On 1 June 2006

The following statistics are made available in response to media enquiries:

Stock Exchange turnover

Today's Stock Exchange turnover value was the third-largest in history and the second-largest this year (see tables 1 and 2 below).

Bank of China Limited (Bank of China, stock code: 3988)

Bank of China's market capitalisation after the first day of trading in its shares stands at $244,185,666,672, the seventh-largest on the Stock Exchange as of 1 June 2006 (see table 3 below).

Today's Bank of China turnover value, $20,056,000,000, was the second-largest ever for a single listed company on a single trading day (see table 4 below).

Bank of China accounted for about a third of all trades today on the Stock Exchange.
	Today's total trades:	341,090 trades
	Today's BOC trades:	112,380 trades
	Record high total trades:	approxiately 400,000 trades (February 2000 on AMS/2)

Bank of China set a new record today for the number of orders in a single price queue with a total of 3,925 orders in $3.20 price queue (bid queue) at 10:46am.

Note: The Stock Exchange increased the maximum number of outstanding orders per price queue in AMS/3 (the securities market trading system) from 4,000 to 8,000 on 29 May 2006. The maximum number of outstanding orders per price queue was increased to 4,000 from 2,000 on 21 November 2005.

Table 1

10 most active trading days in history
(Main Board and GEM)
Rank	Date	Turnover (HK$ mil)
1	28/8/1998	79,002.61
2	28/4/2006	57,212.88
3	1/6/2006	54,198.84
4	19/4/2006	47,938.40
5	29/8/1997	46,096.84
6	6/4/2006	45,970.35
7	11/5/2006	44,998.44
8	7/4/2006	42,810.12
9	23/2/2006	42,554.41
10	8/5/2006	41,937.61

Table 2

10 most active trading days in 2006
(Main Board and GEM)
Rank	Date	Turnover (HK$ mil)
1	28/4/2006	57,212.88
2	1/6/2006	54,198.84
3	19/4/2006	47,938.40
4	6/4/2006	45,970.35
5	11/5/2006	44,998.44
6	7/4/2006	42,810.12
7	23/2/2006	42,554.41
8	8/5/2006	41,937.61
9	24/4/2006	41,902.98
10	23/5/2006	41,597.97

Table 3

Top 10 listed companies by market capitalisation (as at 1 June 2006)
Rank	Stock Code	Company	Market Capitalisation (HK$)	% of equity market total
1	5	HSBC Holdings plc	1,524,264,716,148	16.00
2	941	China Mobile Ltd	794,166,932,855	8.34
3	939	China Construction Bank	752,708,431,400	7.90
4	13	Hutchison Whampoa Ltd	297,796,448,983	3.13
5	2888	Standard Chartered PLC	253,469,340,672	2.66
6	883	CNOOC Ltd	251,298,935,358	2.64
7	3988	Bank of China	244,185,666,672	2.56
8	1	Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd	195,021,037,260	2.05
9	16	Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd	190,963,719,279	2.00
10	11	Hang Seng Bank Ltd	184,684,008,298	1.94

Table 4

Ten most active stocks by single day trading
Rank	Stock Code	Name	Trading Date	Turnover (HK$)
1	5	HSBC Holdings plc	28/8/1998	24,789,852,927
2	3988	Bank of China	1/6/2006	20,056,000,000
3	2388	BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Ltd.	16/12/2003	19,602,857,362
4	883	CNOOC	28/4/2006	17,789,193,100
5	857	PetroChina Co. Ltd.	13/1/2004	15,464,783,204
6	8	PCCW Ltd.	21/9/2000	14,074,996,857
7	8	PCCW Ltd.	15/2/2000	11,972,264,966
8	386	China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation	2/3/2005	10,752,170,932
9	939	China Construction Bank	27/10/2005	8,583,478,636
10	8	Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd.	28/8/1998	8,575,397,534