2007年6月18日 曾荫权_支持沪港股票跨境交易
香港特首曾荫权(Donald Tsang)表示,支持有关香港和上海交易所彼此交易对方上市股票的提议,并证实正在进行相关谈判。 Donald Tsang, Hong Kong's chief executive, has endorsed proposals to begin trading Hong Kong and Shanghai-listed shares on each other's exchanges, and confirmed that talks are under way. "There's no reason why ………stocks listed in Shanghai cannot through some financial instruments be traded in Hong Kong," Mr Tsang said in an interview with the Financial Times. "Similarly, I do not see why Hong Kong stocks cannot be co-listed in the Shanghai stock market through an arbitrage arrangements ……We are discussing the mechanics of it." Mr Tsang is the most senior official to voice support of cross-border trading mechanisms - such as depositary receipts - that could link the world's fifth and sixth-largest stock markets by market capitalisation. The Hong Kong stock exchange and its counterparts in Shanghai and Shenzhen together account for 7.65 per cent of global market capitalisation, just behind Japan's 8.48 per cent. In February, Joseph Yam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, mooted the creation of "certificates of ownership of shares listed on the Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong stock exchanges". In a later interview with the FT, Fang Xinghai, deputy director of Shanghai's financial services office, endorsed a joint trading mechanism for shares in 42 groups traded on both exchanges. The number of companies traded on both markets is rising as the Chinese government urges its biggest and best companies, which have flocked to Hong Kong, to list in Shanghai as well. But with the renminbi not freely convertible and China's stock markets isolated from international capital flows, valuations diverge widely. Companies' Shanghai-listed A-shares are typically trading at twice the level of their Hong Kong H-shares. "We are helping Shanghai as much as possible to modernise the market," Mr Tsang said. "There are two different markets. One is an external international global market in Hong Kong and one is a regional market in Shanghai……We are an international platform way ahead - about 15 years ahead." |