HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

- Securities Market

The average daily turnover for the first four months of 2009 was $49,018 million, a decrease of 49 per cent when compared with $95,592 million for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover for April 2009 was $61,911 million, an increase of 33 per cent when compared with $46,590 million for March 2009, and an increase of 38 per cent compared with $44,721 million for the first three months of 2009.
The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first four months of 2009 was $6,394 million, an increase of 324 per cent when compared with $1,508 million for the same period last year.
The Hang Seng Index had its largest point and per cent gains in the first four months of 2009 on 2 April, when it rose 1002.43 points and 7.4 per cent.

- Derivatives Market

The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first four months of 2009 was 407,464 contracts, a decrease of 9 per cent when compared with 449,394 contracts for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of equity index options for the first four months of 2009 was 26,093 contracts, an increase of 33 per cent when compared with 19,671 contracts for the same period last year.
On 28 April 2009 , the turnover and open interest of Mini Hang Seng Index Options reached a record high of 4,584 contracts and 9,714 contracts respectively.

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

	Apr 2009	Apr 2008	End 2008
No. of listed companies	1,267	1,244	1,261
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	11,458	18,860	10,299
No. of newly listed companies *	1	1	49
No. of listed securities	5,494	6,553	5,831
No. of equity warrants	32	39	37
No. of derivatives warrants	2,476	4,808	3,011
No. of CBBC	1,510	260	1,314
No. of unit trusts	38	26	33
No. of debt securities	168	173	172

* Includes the number of companies for transfer of listing from GEM to Main Board

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Apr 2009	Mar 2009	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,238,219	1,024,976	21%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	61,911	46,590	33%
No. of trading days	20	22	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

	Apr 2009 ($Mil)	Mar 2009 ($Mil)	% Chan ge
Equities	920,093.88 (74.3%)	759,094.65 (74.1%)	21.2%
Derivative warrants	117,812.44 (9.5%)	103,160.10 (10.1%)	14.2%
CBBC	160,128.58 (12.9%)	122,340.60 (11.9%)	30.9%
Debt securities	0.20 (0.0%) (less than 0.1%)	1.32 (0.0%) (less than 0.1%)	-84.8%

( ) % of market total

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

	Apr 2009	Apr 2008	End 2008
No. of H shares	150	148	150
No. of Red chips Stocks	96	93	93
No. of NHMPE	224	202	222
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	58.8%	58.6%	59.8%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	71.9%	74.2%	70.8%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Apr 2009	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	18849.23	12.6%	-39.6%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	421.97	9.3%	-52.3%
Hang Seng Index	15520.99	14.3%	-39.7%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	9084.91	12.6%	-36.2%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3263.55	5.4%	-43.7%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Apr 2009	Mar 2009	% Change
Total Futures	200,501	175,130	14.5%
Hang Seng Index Futures	94,023	79,034	19.0%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	42,200	34,918	20.9%
H-shares Index Futures	59,709	56,997	4.8%
Mini H-shares Index Futures	3,420	2,702	26.6%
Stock Futures	1,111	1,417	-21.6%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	7	19	-63.2%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	1	4	-75.0%
3 -Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Gold Futures	30	39	-23.1%
Total Options	260,021	280,820	-7.4%
Hang Seng Index Options	19,864	18,935	4.9%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	1,266	1,070	18.3%
H-shares Index Options	8,838	8,039	9.9%
Stock Options	230,053	252,776	-9.0%
Total Futures and Options	460,522	455,950	1.0%

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Apr 2009	Mar 2009	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	729,874	569,292	28.21%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	69,094	59,741	15.66%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	545	525	3.81%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.87	99.85	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	70.97% 47.52%	70.99% 46.29%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Apr 2009	Mar 2009	% Chan ge
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	182,599	171,202	6.7%
- Stock Futures	12,136	9,208	31.8%
- Interest Rates Futures	1,276	1,377	-7.3%
- Gold Futures	112	20	460.0%
- Equity Index Options	264,112	217,088	21.7%
- Stock Options	4,765,827	4,400,699	8.3%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Apr 2009 YTD	Apr 2008 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies #	8	11	-27%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	49,018	95,592	-49%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	80,986	148,343	-45%
Average no. of trades per trading day	582,945	629,581	-7%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	2,597	33,167	-92%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	164,621	88,495	86%
Derivatives Market	Apr 2009 YTD	Apr 2008 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	176,927	176,691	0.1%
- Stock Futures	1,172	694	68.9%
- Interest Rates Futures	17	131	-87.0%
- Gold Futures **	33	0	-
- Equity Index Options	26,093	19,671	32.6%
- Stock Options	203,223	252,206	-19.4%
Clearing & Settlement	Apr 2009 YTD	Apr 2008 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	582,937	629,566	-7.41%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	59,030	68,601	-13.95%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	460	601	-23.46%

# Includes the number of companies for transfer of listing from GEM to Main Board
* Provisional figures only
** Trading in Gold Futures commenced on 20 Oct 2008

Historical Records
up to 30 April 2009

Top 10 Hang Seng Index Closes

Rank	Date	Close
1	2007/10/30	31638.22
2	2007/10/29	31586.90
3	2007/11/01	31492.88
4	2007/10/31	31352.58
5	2007/11/02	30468.34
6	2007/10/26	30405.22
7	2007/10/25	29854.49
8	2007/11/07	29708.93
9	2007/12/06	29558.92
10	2007/10/15	29540.78

Top 10 Daily Market Turnover
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank	Date	Turnover ($)
1	2007/10/03	210,505,533,155
2	2007/10/16	201,413,369,933
3	2007/10/12	195,962,197,177
4	2007/10/30	185,681,499,300
5	2007/10/11	179,409,273,541
6	2007/10/29	178,382,190,802
7	2007/10/15	174,984,449,067
8	2007/11/06	170,352,755,573
9	2007/10/18	169,121,203,305
10	2007/10/25	165,926,117,174

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank	Date	Market Capitalisation ($)
1	2007/10/30	23,196,977,098,941
2	2007/11/01	23,176,749,100,222
3	2007/10/29	23,070,544,404,276
4	2007/10/31	23,069,877,573,111
5	2007/11/02	22,518,847,046,433
6	2007/10/26	22,285,176,719,928
7	2007/11/07	22,202,420,942,652
8	2007/11/06	21,960,903,395,247
9	2007/10/25	21,942,008,331,692
10	2007/12/06	21,764,884,238,904

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
Stock Options	805,947	2008/03/27	8, 3 02,290	2007/11/28
Hang Seng Index Futures	224,461	2008/10/28	198,789	2007/06/27
H-shares Index Futures	219,689	2008/10/28	156,841	2008/03/26
Hang Seng Index Options	85,981	2007/11/28	476,682	2007/08/29
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	6 3 ,991	2008/01/24	10,673	2008/10/29

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HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - April 2009