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Hong Kong plans to extend derivatives trading hours

The Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx) is consulting the industry on whether to extend the trading hours of Hong Kong stock-related derivatives and their underlying assets. Currently, stock options and futures contracts are traded for a total four and a half hours per day, split into morning and afternoon sessions.

Rapid globalisation of the financial markets and the growth of online trading have encouraged a number of derivatives and stock markets around the world to extend their trading hours. A number of top derivatives exchanges offer almost 24-hour trading. In Hong Kong, the longest traded derivatives products are currency derivatives such as the rolling forex, which trade for 16 hours per day. “HKEx

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