HKEx To Introduce Denway Motors And Esprit Holdings Futures And Options

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce futures and options contracts based on Denway Motors Limited (DWM) and Esprit Holdings Limited (ESP) shares on Monday, 11 July.

Contract months of the DWM and ESP futures and options available for trading on 11 July will be July, August, September and December 2005 and March 2006.

The multipliers for the futures contracts will be 2,000 for DWM and 500 for ESP. The size of the options contracts will be one board lot of the underlying shares, or 2,000 shares for DWM and 500 shares for ESP.

For a list of the stock options and stock futures currently available for trading in HKEx's derivatives market, please see the following pages on the HKEx website:

http://www.hkex.com.hk/prod/so/classlist_so.htm

http://www.hkex.com.hk/tradinfo/futurescontract/list_sf.htm