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New issuing record on the German share market<br />

The German share market achieved a record result<br />

in 1989. The volume of new issues clearly exceeded<br />

the peak level of 1986. The number of new listings<br />

also increased again: 24 companies with an issue<br />

volume of DM 2.4 bn. were introduced to the stock<br />

exchange.<br />

In 1989 prices rose more strongly on the German<br />

share market (DAX Index +35%) than on the other<br />

major international stock exchanges. However, the<br />

shock wave on the German stock market on October<br />

16, caused by the crash on Wall Street, produced the<br />

highest losson one day in the post-war period (about<br />

13%) - that was more than on any other bourse. On<br />

balance, construction and construction-related<br />

stocks, consumer goods, steel, energy, engineering<br />

and big bank shares made the greatest gains in 1989.<br />

Owing to the strong growth of the German economy,<br />

the profit dynamic and the attractive opportunities<br />

arising from the opening-up of Eastern Europe,<br />

international institutions increasingly concentrated<br />

their investment strategy on the German share<br />

market towards the close of the year.<br />

Germany as a financial centre needs further<br />

liberalization<br />

Further steps were taken in 1989 to strengthen<br />

Germany's role as a financial centre, including various<br />

<strong>der</strong>egulatory measures:<br />

- The minimum lifetimefor new issuesof DM foreign<br />

bonds was reduced to 2 years.<br />

- Stock exchange trading of securities denominated<br />

in foreign currency or in units of account (e.g. ECU)<br />

was made possible.<br />

- Since January 1990 residents in the Fe<strong>der</strong>al Repub-<br />

lic have been permitted to issue bonds in foreign<br />

currency and the official units of account ECU and<br />

SDR.<br />

- The legal prerequisites for <strong>Deutsche</strong> Terminbörse<br />

(DTB) were created by an amendment to the Stock<br />

Exchange Act.<br />

At the end of January 1990 DTB successfully<br />

started business - initially in share options; futures<br />

contracts in the share index (DAX) and a "notional"<br />

German government bond will follow in the Course of<br />

1990. In the medium term additional interest rate fu-<br />

tures contracts are to be introduced to trading.<br />

Germany's stock exchanges will also be streng-<br />

thened by technological improvements, in particular<br />

the new lnterbank Information System (IBIS). This<br />

System brings greater transparency to over-the-<br />

counter share trading and thereby complements<br />

traditional floor trading.<br />

Additional measures are necessary if Germany is<br />

to remain a competitive international financial centre.<br />

Thus, in 1990 the approval procedure for new issues<br />

pursuant to §§ 7951808a German Civil Code, which<br />

up to now has hampered in particular the wi<strong>der</strong> is-<br />

suance of industrial bonds, is to be discontinued. In<br />

addition, stock exchange turnover tax is to be abol-<br />

ished on January 1,1991; company tax and bill tax are<br />

to go a year later.

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