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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) Group published a set of market statistics for the full year of 2014 on its website today (Thursday).
Major record highs
(previous record highs are in brackets)
- New Main Board listings: 96 (94 in 2010)
- New listings (Main Board and GEM): 122 (117 in 2002)
- Fundraising through post-IPO share sales: $708 bil ($409 bil in 2010)
- Fundraising through IPOs and post-IPO share sales: $936 bil ($859 bil in 2010)
- ETF turnover: $1.2 tril ($903.1 bil in 2013)
- Derivatives market turnover: 142.4 mil contracts (140.5 mil in 2011)
- Derivatives market open interest: 12.9 mil contracts on 29 Dec (10.4 mil on 28 Sep 2011)
- Commodities market trading: 177.2 mil lots transacted, equivalent to US$14.9 tril and 4.0 bil tonnes of material (171.1 mil lots transacted, equivalent to US$14.6 tril and 4.0 bil tonnes of material in 2013).
Other securities market highlights
- IPO fundraising rose 34 per cent from 2013 to US$29.3 bil, the world’s second highest total, according to data from Dealogic (HKEx’s securities market has been in the world’s top five in IPO fundraising every year since 2002).
- Market capitalisation exceeded $26 tril for the first time and reached an all-time high of $26.5 tril on 4 September 2014.
- Securitised derivatives (derivative warrants and CBBCs) turnover# was the world’s largest for the eighth consecutive year.
- The average daily turnover of Northbound and Southbound trading under Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect was RMB5.6 bil and HK$929 mil respectively between the programme’s launch on 17 Nov and 31 Dec*.
Other derivatives market highlights
- January-December trading volume of H-shares Index Options, Mini H-shares Index Futures, HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures (another H-shares product), Renminbi Currency Futures - USD/CNH Futures and Flexible H-shares Index Options reached new highs.
Other commodities market highlights
- Average daily volume rose 4 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 700,204 lots.
- Aluminium trading rose 3 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 68.8 mil lots.
- Zinc trading rose 2 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 31.8 mil lots.
- Nickel trading rose 39 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 19.4 mil lots.
- At year-end, London Metal Exchange's market share was 82 per cent of global exchange-traded metals futures.
For more details, please visit the HKEx and LME websites.
Notes
| $: Hong Kong dollars | |
| US$/USD: US dollars | |
| CNH: Offshore Renminbi | |
| New listings include transfers from Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) to Main Board | |
| IPO: Initial public offering | |
| ETF: Exchange Traded Fund | |
| CBBC: Callable Bull/Bear Contract | |
| #: Turnover from January to November 2014 (latest available figures) | |
| *: 31 Dec was the last trading day of Northbound trading in 2014 while 24 Dec was the last trading day of Southbound trading in 2014. | |
| Securities market: Products traded on Main Board and GEM | |
| Derivatives market: Futures and options traded at HKEx | |
| Commodities market: Commodities traded at London Metal Exchange | |
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Some figures have been rounded |
