Hi Sig, I just found this and it sure looks like good news. I have 3 out of the 7. Not bad.
See you all in Austin, Lord willing. Dorine
Seven Nasdaq stocks to list in HK by end of May
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Seven Nasdaq stocks to list in HK by end of May HONG KONG, May 3 (Reuters) - Seven of Nasdaq's marquee stocks will be listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) by the end of this month for a three-month trial period, Nasdaq International president John Wall said on Wednesday. "What we are doing is really seeing not only how you can link markets but how you can link clearing and settlement co-operations," Wall told reporters in Hong Kong. Wall called the cross-listing a pilot programme that would be closely watched by all involved parties. Nasdaq and SEHK signed an information sharing agreement last December to allow Hong Kong listings for shares of seven Nasdaq-listed U.S. corporate giants, but the listing had been postponed from an inital schedule for February listing. The plan delayed was due to technical issues, Hong Kong Cable Television quoted SEHK chairman Lee Hong Chiu as saying. Hong Kong's securities watchday, the Securities and Futures Commission, would supervise dealing of the Nasdaq stocks in Hong Kong and the company surpervision would be carried out by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Lee said. The seven Nasdaq companies which will list in Hong Kong are Microsoft Corp MSFT.O, Intel Corp INTC.O, Dell Computer Corp DELL.O, Cisco Systems CSCO.O, Amgen Inc AMGN.O, Applied Materials Inc AMAT.O and Starbucks Corp SBUX.O. Trading in these companies would be settled in Hong Kong dollars and there would be market makers for the stocks, Hong Kong Cable TV said. REUTERS Rtr 05:27 05-03-00 |