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The Latibex Market Traded A 1,242 € Million Transaction On Friday 1 August

Date 04/08/2003

On Friday Enersis traded over 288 million trading units, after a simplification of the parent's company stake in Enersis was announced by its parent company.

Latibex traded 14,406,840,500 Enersis shares grouped into trading units of 50 shares each. The transaction price, which coincides with the share's closing price on Thursday on the Chilean stock market, reached 4.31 euros per trading unit.

The transaction, carried out on Latibex by Endesa Internacional, is part of the shareholding simplification process that Endesa is carrying out in relation with its stake in Enersis, as the company described in a press release on Friday.

Latibex is the only international market for Latin American stocks and the third biggest for Latin American shares by market capitalisation, with 70 bn euros. Latibex trades 27 Latin American shares from 6 countries in the region - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico.

Investors in this market can trade in companies from the power, paper, mining, petrol, metal, telecom, Internet and investment entities sectors.

Among these companies are 6 of the 10 biggest Latin American companies by market capitalisation - Telmex, Petrobrás, América Móvil, Vale Do Río Doce, GF BBVA Bancomer and Bradesco.

The FTSE Latibex All Share Index, the benchmark index for Latin American equities, already shows a correlation of 95 % to the rest of Latin American global indices.