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HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - April 2012

Date 07/05/2012

Highlights
 
- Securities Market
 
  • The average daily turnover for the first four months of 2012 was $60,253 million, a decrease of 21 per cent when compared with $76,742 million for the same period last year.
  • Total funds raised by for the first four months of 2012 was $108,432 million, an increase of 6 per cent when compared with $102,609 million for the same period last year.
  • There were 25 newly listed companies for the first four months of 2012, an increase of 19 per cent when compared with 21 (included four companies which transferred listing from GEM to Main Board) for the same period last year.
 
- Derivatives Market
 
  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first four months of 2012 was 485,290 contracts, a decrease of 10 per cent when compared with 539,483 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The open interest of equity index options at the end of April 2012 was 704,957 contracts, an increase of 72 per cent when compared with 409,348 contracts for the same period last year.
 
Listed Securities (Main Board and GEM)
Month-end figures
 
Apr 2012
Apr 2011
End 2011
No. of listed companies
1,516
1,430
1,496
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)
20,231
21,940
17,537
No. of newly listed companies *
7
4
101
No. of listed securities
6,916
8,162
6,723
No. of equity warrants
16
24
15
No. of derivatives warrants
4,060
5,589
4,027
No. of CBBC
1,005
853
901
No. of unit trusts
100
87
88
No. of debt securities
215
175
192
* Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board
Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)
Apr 2012
Mar 2012
% Change
Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *
904,131
1,418,032
-36%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *
50,230
64,456
-22%
No. of trading days
18
22
-
* Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included start from 29 November 2010
Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 
Apr 2012
($Mil)
Mar 2012
($Mil)
% Change
Equities
655,679.88
(72.5%)
1,023,727.02
(72.2%)
-36.0%
Derivative warrants
107,810.21
(11.9%)
191,533.62
(13.5%)
-43.7%
CBBC
161,795.29
(11.8%)
161,642.34
(11.4%)
-33.9%
Debt securities
37.23
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)
101.47
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)
-63.3%
( ) % 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 2012
Apr 2011
End 2011
No. of H shares
168
163
168
No. of Red chips Stocks
107
103
107
No. of Mainland private enterprises
420*
336
365
Market capitalisation (% of market total)
58.7%
56.6%
55.5%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)
70.8%
66.7%
66.0%
* Revised methodology for classification of listed companies took effect from 1 January 2012 (Mainland private enterprises were classified as Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises, or NHMPE before revision).
Index Performance
Month-end figures
 
Apr 2012
% Change
over 1 Month
% Change
over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index
25381.17
2.4%
-10.1%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index
433.78
-3.1%
-44.1%
Hang Seng Index
21094.21
2.6%
-11.1%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#
11081.00
4.1%
-16.1%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*
4128.46
3.6%
-4.2%
 
# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips
Derivatives Market Turnover
Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
Apr 2012
Mar 2012
% Change
Total Futures
190,457
207,769
-8.3%
Hang Seng Index Futures
83,298
90,084
-7.5%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures
34,230
42,185
-18.9%
H-shares Index Futures
64,227
66,660
-3.6%
Mini H-shares Index Futures
7,180
6,763
6.2%
HSI Dividend Point Index Futures
56
39
43.6%
HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures
486
711
-31.6%
HSI Volatility Index Futures 1
11
10
10.0%
IBOVESPA Futures 2
0
0
-
MICEX Index Futures 3
0
0
-
Sensex Index Futures 4
3
5
-40.0%
FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures 5
0
0
-
Stock Futures
965
1,314
-26.6%
3-Month HIBOR Futures
3
3
0.0%
1-Month HIBOR Futures
0
0
-
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures
0
0
-
Gold Futures
0
0
-
Total Options
266,820
294,251
-9.3%
Hang Seng Index Options
36,825
39,431
-6.6%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options
4,096
3,896
5.1%
Flexible Hang Seng Index Options
194
0
-
H-shares Index Options
24,592
24,919
-1.3%
Flexible H-shares Index Options
33
0
-
Stock Options
201,080
226,006
-11.0%
Total Futures and Options
457,278
502,021
-8.9%
 
 
1 Trading in HSI Volatility Index Futures commenced on 20 Feb 2012
2 Trading in IBOVESPA Futures commenced on 30 Mar 2012
3 Trading in MICEX Index Futures commenced on 30 Mar 2012
4 Trading in Sensex Index Futures commenced on 30 Mar 2012
5 Trading in FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures commenced on 30 Mar 2012
Clearing and Settlement
CCASS Statistics (securities market)
Apr 2012
Mar 2012
% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS
726,146
884,941
-17.94%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS
72,121
79,745
-9.56%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS
319
333
-4.20%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)
99.92
99.90
N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository
– % of total issued shares
– % of the total market capitalisation

70.14%
50.41%

70.60%
50.26%

N/A
N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)
Apr 2012
Mar 2012
% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
     
– Equity Index Futures
283,289
282,124
0.4%
– Stock Futures
15,241
14,178
7.5%
– Interest Rates Futures
120
95
26.3%
– Gold Futures
0
0
-
– Equity Index Options
704,957
593,478
18.8%
– Stock Options
5,461,734
4,971,657
9.9%
 
Year-to-date Statistics
Securities Market
Apr 2012
YTD
Apr 2011
YTD
% Change
No. of newly listed companies # 
25
21
19%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^
60,253
76,742
-21%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)
153,070
163,856
-7%
Average no. of trades per trading day
842,984
877,511
-4%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)
24,004
22,381
7%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*
108,432
102,609
6%
Derivatives Market
Apr 2012
YTD
Apr 2011
YTD
% Change
Average daily volume (contracts)
     
– Equity Index Futures
192,683
185,924
3.6%
– Stock Futures
1,218
1,821
-33.1%
– Interest Rates Futures
2
3
-33.3%
– Gold Futures
-
21
-
– Equity Index Options
61,455
60,413
1.7%
– Stock Options
229,932
291,301
-21.1%
Clearing & Settlement
Apr 2012
YTD
Apr 2011
YTD
% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS
842,667
877,311
-3.95%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS
78,106
88,038
-11.28%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS
344
539
-36.18%
 
 
# 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 2012 
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
9,218,955
2011/11/28
Hang Seng Index Futures
235,385
2011/08/09
198,789
2007/06/27
H-shares Index Futures
220,600
2011/09/27
177,892
2011/09/28
Hang Seng Index Options
116,835
2011/08/05
483,835
2011/09/28
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures
86,812
2011/08/09
21,682
2011/06/17
H-shares Index Options
43,238
2012/02/17
448,971
2012/03/28
Stock Futures
27,966
2007/03/28
26,482
2011/08/25
Mini H-shares Index Futures
19,556
2011/08/09
6,684
2012/04/24
HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures
15,000
2011/09/14
51,705
2012/03/27
Mini Hang Seng Index Options
10,618
2011/08/05
22,086
2011/08/29