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Article: Survey: HK has nearly 1 million stock investors
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 6, 2004
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Survey: HK has nearly 1 million stock investors
HONG KONG, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The number of Hong Kong retail
investors investing in stocks or derivatives traded on HKEx is close
to 1 million, and stock investors traded twice as frequently in 2003
as in 2002, said a survey conducted by Hong Kong Exchanges and
Clearing Limited (HKEx).
According to the survey released Tuesday, 17.5 percent of Hong
Kong adults, or 957,000 individuals, were stock investors who at the
time of the interview were holding stocks traded on the HKEx
securities market, including shares, warrants and Exchange Traded
Funds or traded them in 2003.
The survey, conducted in December 2003, also showed that 2.5
percent of ...