Covered Warrant

23 May 2011

Hong Kong is the world's biggest warrants market. Average daily turnover in the city for warrants (and its close kin, the callable bull/bear contract) clocks in at a thumping HK$19.3 billion,...

10:40AM

Alert sounded on suspicious warrant trades

10 Jul 2007

Exchanges plan to step up action

Mainland stock exchanges have vowed to step up policing of suspicious warrant trading to weed out irregularities in the world's biggest market for the...

2:04PM

Disruption hits HK$1b in warrants trade

27 Apr 2007

Reuters, an international real-time financial data provider, suffered a service disruption yesterday that affected an estimated HK$1 billion worth of Hong Kong trading in warrants issued by...

3:40AM

Warrants fever demonises market

10 Sep 2005

Derivative warrants - a favourite punting instrument among retail investors - are once again the talk of the town.

12:20AM

Brokerage rejects SFC probe rumours

8 Jun 1999

SG Securities yesterday denied rumours it was being investigated by the Securities and Futures Commission for improper derivatives trading.

'I have checked with compliance, and there...

7:33AM

Beast takes on a life of its own

27 Jun 1997

New covered warrant issuing rules requiring a minimum free float of shares were designed to protect investors. They look to be having the opposite effect.

11:35PM

Opinion

The 1-2 punch heard around the world

5:37PM

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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5:24AM

Seven call warrants launched in big day

INVESTMENT banks may have set a record, launching at least seven covered call warrant offerings yesterday, raising more than $767 million in a single day.

5:40AM

Warrants stream becomes a flood

THE flow of warrant issues has accelerated with three separate issues on the territory's blue chip stocks yesterday.

8:30PM

CL unit joins warrant issuers

CREDIT Lyonnais Financial Products (Guernsey) has become the latest house to offer call warrants, issuing 450 million warrants on Henderson Investment.

Ten warrants allow the holder...

3:19PM

Warrants on China Light

BANKERS Trust International has issued 50 million call warrants on China Light & Power Co at $1.128 per warrant. The exercise price is $34 and the expiry date is August next year.

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4:48PM

Credit risk

THE Stock Exchange has warned investors of credit risks for derivative warrants. The exchange noted media comment about the effect on warrant buyers if a major warrant issuer collapsed.

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10:16AM

Warrants

CARR Indosuez Asia will issue 400 million covered warrants on Amoy Properties at 19.6 cents per warrant.

The conversion ratio is 10 warrants per share and the strike price is HK$6....

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