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HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - April 2011

Date 06/05/2011

Highlights 

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for April 2011 was $79,583 million, an increase of 14 per cent when compared with $69,900 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover for the first four months of 2011 was $76,742 million, an increase of 16 per cent when compared with $65,981 million for the same period last year.

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first four months of 2011 was 539,483 contracts, an increase of 30 per cent when compared with 414,689 contracts for the same period last year. 
  • The average daily turnover of Stock Options for the first four months of 2011 was 291,301 contracts, an increase of 43 per cent when compared with 203,557 contracts for the same period last year. 
  • On 27 April 2011, the open interest of H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 163,863 contracts.

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

 

Apr 2011

Apr 2010

End 2010

No. of listed companies

 1,430

 1,334

 1,413

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

21,940

18,083

21,077

No. of newly listed companies *

4

3

113

No. of listed securities

8,162

6,990

7,900

No. of equity warrants

24

 22

 23

No. of derivatives warrants

5,589

4,203

5,148

No. of CBBC

853

1,198

1,064

No. of unit trusts

87

71

79

No. of debt securities

175

159

169

* Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board

  

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Apr 2011

Mar 2011

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,432,492

1,821,244

-21%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

79,583

79,185

1%

No. of trading days

18

23

-

 * Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included start from 29 November 2010 

 

 Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

Apr 2011
($Mil)

Mar 2011
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

1,069,142.94
(74.6%)

1,323,162.17
(72.7%)

-19.2%

Derivative warrants

209,680.04
(14.6%)

298,763.68
(16.4%)

-29.8%

CBBC

102,933.04
(7.2%)

137,170.29
(7.5%)

-25.0%

Debt securities

0.34
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

0.92
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

-63.0%

 

( ) % of market total
Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included start from 29 November 2010 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Apr 2011

Apr 2010

End 2010

No. of H shares

 163

156

163

No. of Red chips Stocks

103

 97

102

No. of NHMPE

 336

 279

 327

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

56.6%

58.0%

56.6%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

66.7%

69.2%

68.0%

 NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

 

 

 

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures
 

 

Apr 2011

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

28237.79

0.7%

13.6%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

775.99

0.8%

-12.9%

Hang Seng Index

23720.81

0.8%

12.4%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

13208.71

-0.8%

8.4%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4309.11

1.5%

7.8%

 

 

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

 

 

 

 

 

Derivatives Market Turnover

 

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Apr 2011

Mar 2011

% Change

Total Futures

193,664

200,726

-3.5%

Hang Seng Index Futures

90,277

95,586

-5.6%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

34,615

39,188

-11.7%

H-shares Index Futures

60,127

57,263

5.0%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

6,447

6,673

-3.4%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures 1

22

22

0.0%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures 2

130

60

116.7%

Stock Futures

2,037

1,908

6.8%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

0

1

-100.0%

1-Month HIBOR Futures

2

2

0.0%

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

Gold Futures

7

21

-66.7%

Total Options

322,994

391,547

-17.5%

Hang Seng Index Options

41,821

45,787

-8.7%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

3,707

3,902

-5.0%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options 3

33

192

-82.8%

H-shares Index Options

14,067

15,894

-11.5%

Flexible H-shares Index Options 4

0

0

-

Stock Options

263,366

325,772

-19.2%

Total Futures and Options

516,658

592,272

-12.8%

 

1 Trading in HSI Dividend Point Index Futures commenced on 01 Nov 2010
2 Trading in HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures commenced on 01 Nov 2010
3 Trading in Flexible Hang Seng Index Options commenced on 08 Feb 2010
4 Trading in Flexible H-shares Index Options commenced on 08 Feb 2010

 

 

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Apr 2011

Mar 2011

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

953,760

939,562

1.51%

Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS

93,956

87,058

7.92%

Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS

614

509

20.63%

Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)

99.87

99.88

N/A

Shares deposited in the CCASS depository
    % of total issued shares 
    % of the total market capitalisation


72.42%

51.15%


72.49%
50.44%


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Apr 2011

Mar 2011

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

    Equity Index Futures

235,063

215,793

8.9%

    Stock Futures

19,442

18,118

7.3%

    Interest Rates Futures

159

173

-8.1%

    Gold Futures

83

178

-53.4%

    Equity Index Options

409,348

375,791

8.9%

    Stock Options

5,947,777

5,912,772

0.6%

 

 Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Apr 2011
YTD

Apr 2010
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

21

16

31%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

76,742

65,981

16%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

163,856

121,995

34%

Average no. of trades per trading day

877,511

780,873

12%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

22,381

37,039

-40%

Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*

97,382

106,098

-8%

Derivatives Market

Apr 2011
YTD

Apr 2010
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

185,924

168,919

10.1%

– Stock Futures

1,821

627

190.4%

– Interest Rates Futures

3

4

-25.0%

– Gold Futures

21

18

16.7%

– Equity Index Options

60,413

41,564

45.3%

– Stock Options

291,301

203,557

43.1%

Clearing & Settlement

Apr 2011
YTD

Apr 2010
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

877,311

780,857

12.35%

Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS

88,038

77,536

13.54%

Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS

539

567

-4.94%

# Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board
^  Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included start from 29 November 2010
* Provisional figures only

 

Historical Records
up to 30 April 2011

 

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

2011/04/21

     22,324,252,903,664

7

2010/11/08

     22,297,367,476,072

8

2007/10/26

     22,285,176,719,928

9

2011/04/08

     22,235,055,909,162

10

2007/11/07

     22,202,420,942,652

 

Record High for Top-10 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

8,825,259

2010/11/26

Hang Seng Index Futures

228,392

2010/10/26

198,789

2007/06/27

H-shares Index Futures

219,689

2008/10/28

163,863

2011/04/27

Hang Seng Index Options

85,981

2007/11/28

477,129

2010/12/29

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

79,706

2011/03/15

12,619

2011/02/15

H-shares Index Options

41,229

2009/12/11

344,647

2009/12/29

Stock Futures

27,966

2007/03/28

25,956

2007/03/14

Mini H-shares Index Futures

13,593

2011/03/15

3,657

2011/02/11

3-Month HIBOR Futures

10,514

2002/04/04

80,964

2001/11/15

Mini Hang Seng Index Options