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HKEx To Introduce New Stock Futures And Stock Options

Date 21/06/2002

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) will introduce three new stock futures contracts and three new stock option classes on 22 July (Monday). The underlying stocks for the new products will be China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, CNOOC Limited and Huaneng Power International, Inc.

The contract months of the new stock futures contracts available for trading on the introduction day will be August 2002, September 2002, December 2002 and March 2003, while contracts for the August 2002, September 2002, December 2002 and March 2003 expiry months will be available for trading when the new stock option classes are introduced.

At least five strike prices will be available for trading for each new stock option class on 22 July. The strike prices will depend on the closing price of the underlying stock on the trading day immediately prior to commencement of trading in the new option classes.

HKEx will offer the following stock futures contracts and stock option classes following the introduction of the new contracts.

  1. Bank of East Asia Limited
  2. Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
  3. Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited
  4. Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited
  5. China Merchants Holdings (International) Company Limited
  6. China Mobile (Hong Kong) Limited
  7. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation
  8. China Resources Enterprise, Limited
  9. China Unicom Limited
  10. CITIC Pacific Limited
  11. CLP Holdings Limited
  12. CNOOC Limited
  13. Cosco Pacific Limited
  14. Hang Seng Bank Limited
  15. Henderson Land Development Company Limited
  16. Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited
  17. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
  18. Hongkong Electric Holdings Limited
  19. HSBC Holdings Plc
  20. Huaneng Power International, Inc
  21. Hutchison Whampoa Limited
  22. Johnson Electric Holdings Limited
  23. Legend Group Limited
  24. Li & Fung Limited
  25. MTR Corporation Limited
  26. New World Development Company Limited
  27. Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited
  28. PetroChina Company Limited
  29. Shanghai Industrial Holdings Limited
  30. Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited
  31. Swire Pacific Limited 'A'
  32. Tracker Fund of Hong Kong *
  33. Wharf (Holdings) Limited

* Stock Options only