The following statistics are made available in response to media enquiries:
Stock Exchange turnover
Today’s Stock Exchange turnover value was the third-largest in history and the second-largest this year (see tables 1 and 2 below).
Bank of China Limited (Bank of China, stock code: 3988)
Bank of China’s market capitalisation after the first day of trading in its shares stands at $244,185,666,672, the seventh-largest on the Stock Exchange as of 1 June 2006 (see table 3 below).
Today’s Bank of China turnover value, $20,056,000,000, was the second-largest ever for a single listed company on a single trading day (see table 4 below).
| Today’s BOC trades: | 112,380 trades |
| Record high total trades: | approxiately 400,000 trades (February 2000 on AMS/2) |
Bank of China set a new record today for the number of orders in a single price queue with a total of 3,925 orders in $3.20 price queue (bid queue) at 10:46am.
Table 1