Standard Chartered continues share buy-back program on May 27

Standard Chartered PLC (HKEX:2888) announced that it purchased 758,382 of its ordinary shares on May 27 pursuant to its previously announced share buy-back program. The shares, priced in GB pence, saw a lowest price of 1,148.0000 and a highest price of 1,162.0000, with a volume-weighted average price of 1,154.2942. Of the total, 455,653 shares were purchased on the London Stock Exchange with a volume weighted average price of 1,154.3013 GB pence per share. A further 150,913 and 151,816 shares were purchased on CBOE BXE and CBOE CXE respectively. At close of business London time on the day preceding this announcement, SC had applied a total of US$921,968,046.82 to the buy-back program. The company intends to cancel the purchased shares, which will leave 2,350,188,875 ordinary shares in issue.