HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

The securities market capitalisation reached $14,040 billion on 11 April 2007 , exceeding $14 trillion for the first time. It reached an all-time high of $14,373 billion on 26 April 2007.
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures commenced trading on 16 April 2007.
China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited (CITIC BANK, stock code 998), the second company listed by way of simultaneous A- and H-share offerings and the largest IPO so far this year, commenced trading in its shares on HKEx's securities market on 27 April 2007.

Listed Securities (Main Board and GEM)
Month-end figures

	Apr 2007	Apr 2006	End 2006
No. of listed companies	1,186	1,143	1,173
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	14,247	9,758	13,338
No. of newly listed companies	6	3	62
No. of listed securities	3,941	2,783	3,383
No. of equity warrants	31	26	28
No. of derivatives warrants	2,480	1,428	1,959
No. of CBBC*	39	-	24
No. of unit trusts	22	13	15
No. of debt securities	179	169	180

* The first CBBC were listed on 12 June 2006

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Apr 2007	Mar 2007	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	997,405	1,098,301	-9%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	55,411	49,923	11%
No. of trading days	18	22	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

	Apr 2007($Mil)	Mar 2007($Mil)	% Change
Equities	811,917.34 (81.4%)	862,953.16 (78.6%)	-5.9%
Derivative warrants	172,455.57 (17.3%)	221,313.77 (20.2%)	-22.1%
CBBC	1,256.05 (0.1%)	1,453.63 (0.1%)	-13.6%
Debt securities	0.44 (0.0%) (less than 0.1%)	1.53 (0.0%) (less than 0.1%)	-70.9%

( ) % of market total

Mainland Enterprises (Main Board and GEM)
Month-end figures

	Apr 2007	Apr 2006	End 2006
No. of H shares	143	127	141
No. of Red chips Stocks	91	90	90
No. of NHMPE	140	127	136
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	50.3%	41.5%	50.3%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	64.2%	62.1%	60.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Apr 2007	% Change over 1 Month	% Change YTD
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	24056.46	2.4%	23.1%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	1406.66	4.2%	11.7%
Hang Seng Index	20318.98	2.6%	22.0%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	10035.01	4.4%	46.8%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3451.98	0.5%	45.7%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts) #
	Apr 2007	Mar 2007	% Change
Total Futures	103,889	106,045	-2.0%
Hang Seng Index Futures	61,929	59,615	3.9%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	11,052	11,577	-4.5%
H-shares Index Futures	29,073	30,732	-5.4%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures¹	174	-	-
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	27	27	0.0%
Stock Futures	1,436	3,912	-63.3%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	197	182	8.2%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	1	0	-
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	154,246	183,647	-16.0%
Hang Seng Index Options	27,872	33,225	-16.1%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	188	538	-65.1%
H-shares Index Options	4,123	7,482	-44.9%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	17	6	183.3%
Stock Options	122,046	142,396	-14.3%
Total Futures and Options	258,135	289,692	-10.9%

# Total average daily volume is the sum of the respective average daily volume of the individual products.
¹Trading in Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures commenced on 16 Apr 2007 .

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Apr 2007	Mar 2007	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	479,891	418,860	14.57%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	54,165	51,294	5.60%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	839	754	11.27%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.77	99.77	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	62.36% 40.05%	61.51% 40.05%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Apr 2007	Mar 2007	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	198,469	191,266	3.8%
- Stock Futures	5,665	20,782	-72.7%
- Interest Rates Futures	11,831	9,035	30.9%
- Equity Index Options	338,869	340,313	-0.4%
- Stock Options	3,098,809	2,569,935	20.6%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Apr 2007 YTD	Apr 2006 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	19	18	6%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	53,453	32,627	64%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	64,664	34,234	89%
Average no. of trades per trading day	442,550	254,825	74%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	73,527	16,834	337%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	107,574	51,141	110%
Derivatives Market	Apr 2007 YTD	Apr 2006 YTD	% Change
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	104,189	73,644	41.5%
- Stock Futures	2,220	186	1093.5%
- Interest Rates Futures	176	79	122.8%
- Equity Index Options	35,936	16,754	114.5%
- Stock Options	124,074	64,681	91.8%
Clearing & Settlement	Apr 2007 YTD	Apr 2006 YTD	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	442,544	254,818	73.67%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	50,691	35,667	42.12%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	795	530	50.00%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 30 April 2007

Top 10 Hang Seng Index Closes

Rank	Date	Close
1	2007/01/24	20821.05
2	2007/02/22	20809.23
3	2007/04/17	20788.61
4	2007/04/18	20777.09
5	2007/01/22	20772.22
6	2007/01/23	20769.70
7	2007/04/16	20757.53
8	2007/02/08	20735.05
9	2007/02/23	20711.65
10	2007/02/07	20679.69

Top 10 Daily Market Turnover
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank	Date	Turnover ($)
1	2007/02/28	80,859,034,731
2	1998/08/28	79,002,608,619
3	2007/01/04	76,680,647,923
4	2006/10/27	76,163,013,434
5	2007/03/05	72,768,457,913
6	2007/01/05	70,824,656,602
7	2007/02/27	65,122,555,681
8	2007/02/08	65,113,213,988
9	2007/04/16	65,064,466,953
10	2007/04/27	64,743,904,911

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank	Date	Market Capitalisation ($)
1	2007/04/26	14,372,974,968,054
2	2007/04/27	14,349,613,645,341
3	2007/04/23	14,323,539,832,142
4	2007/04/24	14,318,982,165,600
5	2007/04/18	14,303,926,964,598
6	2007/04/17	14,287,948,386,406
7	2007/04/20	14,284,296,622,279
8	2007/04/25	14,265,337,616,859
9	2007/04/30	14,246,938,399,418
10	2007/04/16	14,237,798,673,557

Record High for Top-5 Derivatives Market Products (Based on Contract Volume)

Product	Record High Daily Volume		Record High Open Interest
	Contracts	Date	Contracts	Date
Hang Seng Index Futures	191,025	2006/09/26	190,316	2006/11/28
Stock Options	414,243	2007/03/29	4,089,426	2007/03/28
H-shares Index Futures	91,499	2007/03/28	112,026	2007/03/28
Hang Seng Index Options	62,909	2007/03/05	424,874	2007/03/28
Mini-Hang Seng Index Futures	33,126	2007/03/06	166,238	2007/03/28

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HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - April 2007