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Encyclopedia > Shenzhen Stock Exchange
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Shenzhen Stock Exchange building
Shenzhen Stock Exchange building
Shenzhen Stock Exchange building

Shenzhen Stock Exchange (深圳交易所) is one of the People's Republic of China's three stock exchanges. It is based in Shenzhen, China. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 90 KB) Description: de: Die Shenzhen-Börse en: The Shenzhen stock market Source: Own photo, 2005 Photographer: Axel Gaodd File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 90 KB) Description: de: Die Shenzhen-Börse en: The Shenzhen stock market Source: Own photo, 2005 Photographer: Axel Gaodd File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 129 KB) Description: de: Die Shenzhen-Börse en: The Shenzhen stock market Source: Own photo, 2005 Photographer: Axel Gaodd File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (768x1024, 129 KB) Description: de: Die Shenzhen-Börse en: The Shenzhen stock market Source: Own photo, 2005 Photographer: Axel Gaodd File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed... Shenzhen (Chinese: 深圳; Pinyin: ShÄ“nzhèn; Hakka:cim1 zun4; Cantonese Jyutping: sam1 zan3; Yale: sām jan; Sham Chun or Shamchun in old or Hong Kong documents; lit. ...

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Exchanges

The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges list more than 1,200 companies with a combined market capitalization of US$500 billion (2005) (30% of GDP, see list of countries by GDP (nominal)), rivalling the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Asia's second-largest stock market behind the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, is a measurement of corporate size that refers to the current stock price times the number of outstanding shares. ... Countries by nominal GDP. Source: IMF (2005) This article includes a list of countries of the world sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP), the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. ... The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Chinese: 香港交易所, also 港交所; abbreviated as SEHK and HKSE; HKEx: 0388) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. ... The Tokyo Stock Exchange ), or TSE, is one of the largest stock exchange markets in the world by monetary volume located in Tokyo, Japan, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. ...


The central government shut down trade on the Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Exchanges for over a week from May 1, 2003 to fight against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Shenzhen (Sham Chun or Shamchun in old documents) is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern China, located at the border with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. ... The Shanghai Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in Shanghai, China. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 8437 known cases of the disease, with 813 deaths (a mortality rate of 9. ...


Listed compiles

Most of the companies within this market belong to listed company in which the Chinese government maintains controlling interest. With regards to the listed companies, the government has viewed the stock markets has means of raising capital, but there is no current interest to privatization or selling off the state controlling interest in the SOE's. Until 2005, two-thirds of the shares in listed companies were non-tradable on the exchange, creating a problem in which the tradable shares were valued higher than their proportion in the company. In 2005, as part of the Chinese stock issue reform, the non-tradable shares were made tradable and the holders of tradable shares were compensated by having extra equity in the company. Privatization (alternately denationalization or disinvestment) is the transfer of property or responsibility from the public sector (government) to the private sector (business). ...


Indices

The Shenzhen Exchange launched the blue-chip composite index in January 1995. It also directed a subsidiary, the Shenzhen Securities Information Co., to launch the Shenzhen Stock Exchange 100 Index on the first trading session of 2003, using 2002's final day of business as a benchmark.


The new index is composed of major firms such as Shenzhen Development Bank, property developer China Vanke Co Ltd and Guangdong Electric Power Co. Index components account for about 40 percent of the Shenzhen bourse's capitalization, 61 percent of the combined after-tax profits of Shenzhen-listed companies, and 43 percent of turnover. Shenzhen Development Bank Co. ...


The Shenzhen exchange will adjust the index's components every six months.


IPO

The initial public offering (IPO) activity in Shenzhen stock exchange was suspended from September 2000 as the Chinese government pondered merging its bourses into a single exchange in Shanghai and launch a Nasdaq-style second board in Shenzhen aimed at private and technology companies. An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a corporations common shares to public investors. ... Shanghai (Chinese: ; pinyin:  ; Shanghainese: ), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the Peoples Republic of China and the eighth largest in the world. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ...


Levels

2005, see [1]

Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, is a measurement of corporate size that refers to the current stock price times the number of outstanding shares. ...

Listings

Main article: companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange

  • BAODING SWAN
  • KOYO GROUP
  • LUXI CHEMICAL
  • SUNSHINE INDUSTRIAL

See also

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (zh: 中国证券监督管理委员会) is an institution of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... For the purpose of this article, the economies of the special administrative regions of Hong bong and Macau are treated separately from the rest of the Peoples Republic of China, and are excluded from this article. ... The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Chinese: 香港交易所, also 港交所; abbreviated as SEHK and HKSE; HKEx: 0388) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. ... The Shanghai Stock Exchange is a stock exchange based in Shanghai, China. ...

Lists

Chinese owned companies can be defined as enterprises within mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and the Republic of China (Taiwan): List of companies in the Peoples Republic of China List of companies in Hong Kong List of companies in Macau See also: Newspapers of China Shanghai Stock Exchange Shenzhen... This is a list of prominent companies from the Peoples Republic of China. ... This is a list of stock exchanges. ...

External links

  • 深圳证券交易所

  Results from FactBites:
 
Shenzhen Stock Exchange - China Trade - China Economy and China Trade (440 words)
Shenzhen Stock Exchange (深圳交易所) is one of the mainland China's two stock exchanges.
The Shenzhen Exchange launched the blue-chip composite index in January 1995.
The initial public offering (IPO) activity in Shenzhen stock exchange was suspended from September 2000 as the Chinese government pondered merging its bourses into a single exchange in Shanghai and launch a Nasdaq-style second board in Shenzhen aimed at private and technology companies.
Shenzhen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1524 words)
Shenzhen is a sub-tropical maritime region and its average temperature is 22.4 degrees Celsius (72 degrees Fahrenheit).
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange was established on December 1, 1990.
Shenzhen Airport is 35km from central Shenzhen and connects the city with many other parts of China, as well as some international destinations.
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