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Floor traders scramble for business at the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, where the Hang Seng Index pushed past 13 000 points in November for the first time. The Index finished the year on 13 451.45, up 34 per cent on the closing figure for 1995. The Exchange began trading operations in its gleaming granite and glass harbourfront premises on April 2, 1986, with 51 corporate and 708 individual members; while 253 public companies were listed with a total market capitalisation of $419 billion. A decade later this had become 354 corporate and 209 individual members; and 583 listed- - companies with a total market capitalisation of $3,475.9 billion.

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