HKEx to Introduce Three New Stock Option Classes on 21 November

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04 Nov 2011

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) will introduce three new stock option classes on Monday, 21 November: Anhui Conch Cement, Belle International and China National Building Material.

HKEx has invited applications for Exchange Participants interested in serving as market makers for the three new option classes.

The first table below shows contract highlights for the three new option classes. A general contract summary is posted on the HKEx website.

Stock Option Classes to be Introduced on 21 November

Underlying Stock	Stock Code	Contract Size* (Shares)	Expiry Months Available on First Day of Trading
Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited	914	500	November 2011 December 2011 January 2012 March 2012 June 2012 September 2012
Belle International Holdings Limited	1880	1,000
China National Building Material Company Limited	3323	2,000

* One board lot of the underlying stock.

Key Stock Options Statistics

Turnover was 64,164,540 contracts in the first 10 months of this year, up 34 per cent from the same period last year.
Open interest at the end of October was 7.4 million contracts, up 16 per cent from the same period last year.
Open interest rose to an all-time high of 9.1 million contracts on 28 September.
The 57 stock option classes currently available in HKEx’s derivatives market accounted for more than half of the market’s turnover between 1 January and 30 October this year.

The attached tables show HKEx’s stock option classes from 21 November.

Stock Option Classes Available for Trading at HKEx from 21 November 2011

Contract Size: More Than One Board Lot of the Underlying Shares

Stock Code	Underlying Stock Name	Derivatives Market Code	Contract Size (shares)
1288	Agricultural Bank of China Limited	ABC	10,000
1299	AIA Group Limited	AIA	1,000
2601	China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co, Ltd.	CPI	1,000
2823	iShares FTSE A50 China Index ETF* (* This is a synthetic ETF)	A50	1,000
2827	WISE - CSI 300 China Tracker* (* This is a synthetic ETF)	CS3	1,000

Contract Size: One Board Lot of the Underlying Shares

StockCode	Underlying Stock Name	Derivatives Market Code	Contract Size (shares)
1	Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited	CKH	1,000
2	CLP Holdings Limited	CLP	500
3	The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited	HKG	1,000
4	The Wharf (Holdings) Limited	WHL	1,000
5	HSBC Holdings Plc	HKB	400
6	Power Assets Holdings Limited	HEH	500
11	Hang Seng Bank Limited	HSB	100
12	Henderson Land Development Company Limited	HLD	1,000
13	Hutchison Whampoa Limited	HWL	1,000
16	Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited	SHK	1,000
17	New World Development Company Limited	NWD	1,000
19	Swire Pacific Limited 'A'	SWA	500
23	The Bank of East Asia, Limited	BEA	200
66	MTR Corporation Limited	MTR	500
267	CITIC Pacific Limited	CIT	1,000
293	Cathay Pacific Airways Limited	CPA	1,000
330	Esprit Holdings Limited	ESP	100
358	Jiangxi Copper Company Limited	JXC	1,000
386	China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation	CPC	2,000
388	Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited	HEX	100
390	China Railway Group Limited	CRG	1,000
494	Li & Fung Limited	LIF	2,000
688	China Overseas Land & Investment Limited	COL	2,000
700	Tencent Holdings Limited	TCH	100
728	China Telecom Corporation Limited	CTC	2,000
762	China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited	CHU	2,000
857	PetroChina Company Limited	PEC	2,000
883	CNOOC Limited	CNC	1,000
902	Huaneng Power International, Inc.	HNP	2,000
914	Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited ^	ACC	500
939	China Construction Bank Corporation	CCB	1,000
941	China Mobile Limited	CHT	500
998	China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited	CTB	1,000
1088	China Shenhua Energy Company Limited	CSE	500
1171	Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited	YZC	2,000
1186	China Railway Construction Corporation Limited	CRC	500
1211	BYD Company Limited	BYD	500
1398	Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited	ICB	1,000
1800	China Communications Construction Company Limited	CCC	1,000
1880	Belle International Holdings Limited ^	BIH	1,000
1898	China Coal Energy Company Limited	CCE	1,000
1919	China COSCO Holdings Company Limited	CCS	500
2038	Foxconn International Holdings Limited	FIH	1,000
2318	Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.	PAI	500
2328	PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited	PIC	2,000
2388	BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited	BOC	500
2600	Aluminum Corporation of China Limited	ALC	2,000
2628	China Life Insurance Company Limited	CLI	1,000
2777	Guangzhou R&F Properties Co., Ltd.	RFP	400
2800	Tracker Fund of Hong Kong	TRF	500
2899	Zijin Mining Group Company Limited	ZJM	2,000
3323	China National Building Material Company Limited ^	NBM	2,000
3328	Bank of Communications Co, Ltd.	BCM	1,000
3968	China Merchants Bank Co, Ltd.	CMB	500
3988	Bank of China Limited	BCL	1,000

^ Trading commences from 21 November 2011

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Updated 04 Nov 2011