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Your Beginners Guide To The Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Summary: This section of the site looks at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, it's influence and working. In terms of markets in Asia, this tiny location is very important - partly because of a history of enabling trade between China and the world.



The Hong Kong Stock Exchange ranks 9th in the world by market capitalization of listed companies.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is the holding company of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and is listed on it's own exchange.

The Hang Seng Index is used to record and monitor daily changes of the 33 largest companies of the Hong Kong stock market and is the main indicator of the overall market performance in Hong Kong. These companies represent roughly 70% of capitalization of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The Hang Seng Composite Index was launched on October 3, 2001, to provide a broad standard of the performance of the Hong Kong stock market.

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Comprising the top 200 listed companies in terms of market capitalisation, it is composed of the geographical series and the industry series. The market cap of these companies accounts for about 97% of the total capitalization of the stocks in Hong Kong.

Another new HSI Services approved stock market index is the FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (a joint venture between the FTSE Group and Xinhua Finance) which was launched on October 25, 2004, targeting Chinese red chip companies.

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