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Ho Sin Hang, chairman of the Hang Seng Bank, conceived the idea of creating the Hang Seng Index as a "Dow Jones Index for Hong Kong". [4] [5] Along with Hang Seng Director Lee Quo-wei, he commissioned Hang Seng's head of Research Stanley Kwan to create the index in 1964, [4] the index was initially used for internal reference in the Hang Seng Bank, they debuted the index on November 24, 1969.
SEHK: 3 The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited: SEHK: 4 The Wharf (Holdings) Limited: SEHK: 5 HSBC Holdings plc: SEHK: 6 Power Assets Holdings Limited: SEHK: 7 Hong Kong Finance Investment Holding Group Limited (formerly Hoifu Energy Group Limited) SEHK: 8 PCCW Limited: SEHK: 9 Nine Express Limited: SEHK: 10 Hang Lung Group: SEHK: 11 Hang ...
The Association was renamed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1914. [citation needed] A second exchange, the Hong Kong Stockbrokers' Association was incorporated in 1921. The two exchanges merged to form the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1947 and re-establish the stock market after the Second World War.
The Hong Kong securities market can be traced back to 1866, but the stock market was formally set up in 1891, when the Association of Stockbrokers in Hong Kong was established. [8] It was renamed as The Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1914. By 1972, Hong Kong had four stock exchanges in operation.
The first ADR was introduced by J.P. Morgan in 1927 for the British retailer Selfridges on the New York Curb Exchange, the American Stock Exchange's precursor. [4] They are the U.S. equivalent of a global depository receipt (GDR). Securities of a foreign company that are represented by an ADR are called American depositary shares (ADSs).
For example, the bank HSBC's stock traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has the ticker symbol 0005. Symbols sometimes change to reflect mergers. Prior to the 1999 merger with Mobil Oil, Exxon used a phonetic spelling of the company "XON" as its ticker symbol. The symbol of the firm after the merger was "XOM". Symbols are sometimes reused.
The MSCI Hong Kong Index is a capitalization-weighted stock index designed to measure the performance of the large and mid cap segments of the Hong Kong market. [1] It has 48 constituents, and covers approximately 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization of Hong Kong equity stocks.
In 2009, Hong Kong's real economic growth fell by 2.8% as a result of the Great Recession. [33] By the late 20th century, Hong Kong was the seventh largest port in the world and second only to New York City and Rotterdam in terms of container throughput. Hong Kong is a full Member of the World Trade Organization. [34]