Philippine Stock Exchange
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The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE: PSE) is one of the two exchanges in the Philippines. The other one, the Philippine Dealing Exchange (Template:PDEx) specializes in both Fixed Income and FX instruments. Aside from one of the major stock exchanges in Southeast Asia, it is also the first and the longest one operating since 1927. It currenly maintains two trading floors, one in Makati City's Central Business District and one at its headquarters in Pasig City.
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[edit] History
The Philippine Stock Exchange was formed from two stock exchanges, the Manila Stock Exchange (MSE), established on August 8, 1927, and the Makati Stock Exchange (MkSE), which was established on May 27, 1963.
Although both the MSE and the MkSE traded the same stocks of the same companies, the bourses were separate stock exchanges for nearly 30 years until December 23, 1992, when both exchanges merged into the present-day Philippine Stock Exchange.
In June 1998, the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission granted the PSE a "Self-Regulatory Organization" (SRO) status, meaning the bourse can implement its own policies and establish penalties on erring stock brokers, traders, and companies.
In 2001, one year after the enactment of the Securities Regulation Code, the PSE was transformed from a non-profit, no-stock, member-governed organization into a fledgling revenue-earning corporation headed by a president and a board of directors. The PSE eventually listed its shares on the exchange (traded under the ticker symbol PSE) and eventually ventured on into new fields such as debt securities.
[edit] Business
The PSE before the mid-1990s was reminiscent of other outcry stock exchanges found throughout Southeast Asia before the technological advancements made during the last decade. On January 4, 1993, the former Manila Stock Exchange started the computerization of its operations using the Stratus Trading System (STS) with a company called Intelligent Wave Philippines. Later that year, on June 15, the former Makati Stock Exchange adopted the MakTrade trading system, the same system used on the Stock Exchange of Thailand and developed by the Chicago Stock Exchange. Both systems were linked on March 25, 1994, producing one set of opening and closing share prices, but orders were queued up on two different books.
Two years later, on November 13, 1995, both systems were unified when the PSE adopted the "Unified Trading System" (UTS) operating under the MakTrade system.
When the PSE started trading bonds on January 15, 2001, the system was modified to allow stock brokers to trade bonds using the same terminal. Also, the PSE-RoSS Interface System, a system allowing stock brokers to access the Philippine Bureau of the Treasury's Registry of Scriptless Securities (BTr-RoSS), was made operational on the same day.
[edit] Levels
- Listed companies: 238
- Brokerage houses: 200 +, but only 130 operational
[edit] Components
The PSE is split into eight indices based on a company's main source of revenue. They are namely:
- PSE All Shares Index (ALL)
- PSE Composite Index (PHISIX)
- PSE Financials Index (FIN)
- PSE Holding Firms Index (HDG)
- PSE Industrial Index (IND)
- PSE Mining and Oil Index (M-O)
- PSE Property Index (PRO)
- PSE Services Index (SVC)
A new classification system went into effect on January 2, 2006, the first trading day of 2006. Some indices, such as the PHISIX, were kept, while others were either merged or dropped.
The PSE was previously split into eight indices (different from the current classification) based on their sector industry classification when companies file their articles of incorporation. They were namely:
- PSE All Shares Index (ALL)
- PSE Commercial/Industrial Index (CI)
- PSE Composite Index (PHISIX)
- PSE Financial Index (BF)
- PSE Mining Index (MIN)
- PSE Oil Index (OIL)
- PSE Property Index (PTY)
- PSE Small and Medium Enterprise Index (SME)
