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Trading Floor at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Hang Seng Stock Index
The Hang Seng is Hong Kong's premier stock index. It is provided by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing in Hong Kong, and includes the forty-two largest (in terms of liquidity and capitalization) companies that are traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The Hang Seng is calculated in real time from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM and 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Hong Kong Time, using the prices of the forty-two individual stocks from the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Performance
Over the past ten years, the Hang Seng stock index has reached a low of 6660.42 (August 13th 1998) and an all time high of 31638.22 (October 30th 2007).
The Hang Seng stock index has an average daily turnover of HKD72 billion, and the HSI futures market has an average daily volume of 89000 contracts.
Derivatives
The HSI futures and options markets are the main Hang Seng derivatives, and these are traded on the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing electronic exchange from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM and 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Hong Kong Time. The HSI futures market is the most actively traded Hang Seng derivative, and is one of the preferred markets of Asian and European professional traders.
Contract Specifications
The contract specifications for the HSI futures market are as follows:
| Symbol Expiration Exchange Contract Value Tick Size Tick Value |
HSI Penultimate trading day of every month HKFE (Hong Kong Futures Exchange) HKD50 (approximately €5) 1 HKD50 (approximately €5) |
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Constituents
As of January 2010, the Hang Seng stock index includes the following forty-two companies:
HSBC Holdings
Hang Seng Bank
Bank of East Asia
HKEx
China Construction Bank
Ind. and Com. Bank of China
Ping An Insurance
BOC Hong Kong
China Life
Bank of Communications
Bank of China
CLP Holdings
Hong Kong and China Gas
Hong Kong Electric Holdings
Chinese Resource Power
Cheung Kong
Henderson Land Development
Sun Hung Kai Properties
Sino Land
Hang Lung Properties
China Overseas Land
Wharf
Hutchison Whampoa
New World Development
Swire Pacific
MTR Corporation
China Merchants Holdings
CITIC Pacific
China Resources Enterprise
Cathay Pacific Airways
Esprit Holdings
Sinopec
Li & Fung
Tencent Holdings
China Unicom
PetroChina
CNOOC
China Mobile
China Shenhua Energy
COSCO Pacific
Foxconn International
Aluminum Corporation