Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

Tokyo Stock Exchange Proposes To Designate Stocks Of The Listed Foreign Companies (Excluding Mothers-Listed Issue) To The 1st Section

Date 26/01/2005

Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) announced that it is scheduled to designate stocks (excluding Mothers-listed issue) of the following 29 existing listed foreign companies to the 1st Section on Monday, February 7, 2005.

However, this designation requires approval from the Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency. Therefore, TSE will make an official announcement at a later date.

Code

Names of the existing Listed Foreign Companies

Country
1773 YTL Corporation Berhad@ Malaysia
2953 PepsiCo U.S.A.
4850 The Dow Chemical Company@ U.S.A.
4863 Bayer Aktiengesellschaft@ Germany
5051 BP p.l.c. U.K.
6680 International Business Machines Corporation@ U.S.A.
6686 MOTOROLA U.S.A.
6687 Alcatel@ France
7659 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft@ Germany
7661 The Boeing Company@ U.S.A.
7663 DaimlerChrysler AG@ Germany
9195 THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY U.K.
9481 Telefonica Spain
9496 Deutsche Telekom AG@ Germany
8634 JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.A.
8637 National Australia Bank Limited@ Australia
8640 The Toronto-Dominion Bank@ Canada
8641 Westpac Banking Corporation Australia
8642 Barclays PLC@ U.K.
8648 Bank of America Corporation@ U.S.A.
8651 Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft@ Germany
8657 UBS AG@ Switzerland
8665 BNP PARIBAS S.A.@ France
8666 Societe Generale@ France
8675 Merrill Lynch & Co. U.S.A.
8685 American International Group U.S.A.
8686 AFLAC Incorporated U.S.A.
8689 AEGON N.V. The Netherlands
8990 Henderson Land Development Company Limited@ H.K.

Note 1: With respect to the stocks of the above foreign companies, the trading methodology remains unchanged.

Note 2: With respect to the stocks of the above foreign companies, the settlement system remains unchanged (i.e. the settlement between customers and trading participants through Foreign Securities Trading Accounts and the settlement of market transactions through the Book-Entry Transfer System for Foreign Share Certificates remain unchanged.).

Note 3: The components of the stock indices including TOPIX that TSE calculates will continue to be limited to domestic stocks.

Note 4: Xinhua Finance Limited (Code: 9399) which is listed on the Mothers market, remains unchanged.