Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - April 2013

Date 07/05/2013

Highlights  

Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first four months of 2013 was $70,324 million, an increase of 17 per cent when compared with $60,253 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first four months of 2013 was $9,601 million, an increase of 20 per cent when compared with $8,022 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily of turnover of ETFs for the first four months of 2013 was $4,918 million, an increase of 167 per cent when compared with $1,841 million for the same period last year.

Derivatives Market 

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first four months of 2013 was 545,311 contracts, an increase of 12 per cent when compared with the 485,290 contracts for the same period last year.

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

 

Apr 2013

Apr 2012

End 2012

No. of listed companies

 1,558

 1,516

 1,547

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

22,374.5

20,231.3

21,950.1

No. of newly listed companies *

1

7

64

No. of listed securities

7,890

6,916

6,903

No. of equity warrants

10

16

11

No. of derivatives warrants

4,634

4,060

3,747

No. of CBBCs

1,249

1,005

1,214

No. of unit trusts

116

100

111

No. of debt securities

319

215

269

* Includes the number of transfer of listings from GEM to Main Board

 

 Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Apr 2013

Mar 2013

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,168,537

1,444,855

-19%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

58,427

72,243

-19%

No. of trading days

20

20

-

* Turnover value for securities traded in non-Hong Kong dollar currency have been included

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

Apr 2013
($Mil)

Mar 2013
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

812,869.01
(69.6%)

1,000,040.31
(69.2%)

-18.7%

Derivative warrants

152,625.69
(13.1%)

205,565.67
(14.2%)

-25.8%

CBBCs

117,793.41
(10.1%)

135,731.76
(9.4%)

-13.2%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

85,162.86
(7.3%)

103,362.19
(7.2%)

-17.6%

( ) % of market total
Turnover value for securities traded in non-Hong Kong dollar currency have been included

 

  

ATS Transactions

The total turnover of automated trading services’ (ATS) transactions for April 2013 was $32,888 million (2.8 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Apr 2013

Apr 2012

End 2012

No. of H shares

 175

168

176

No. of Red chips Stocks

120

 107

108

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 442

420

437

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

56.3%

58.7%

57.4%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

71.7%

70.8%

69.6%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Apr 2013

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

27071.53

1.8%

6.7%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

391.21

-2.3%

-9.8%

Hang Seng Index

22737.01

2.0%

7.8%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

10917.97

0.2%

-1.5%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4451.00

2.0%

7.8%

 

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

 

Derivatives Market Turnover

 

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Apr 2013

Mar 2013

% Change

Total Futures

212,266

215,206

-1.4%

Hang Seng Index Futures

87,410

87,215

0.2%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

34,139

36,861

-7.4%

H-shares Index Futures

80,090

77,882

2.8%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

7,588

8,720

-13.0%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

63

15

320.0%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

846

1,282

-34.0%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

3

3

0.0%

IBOVESPA Futures

0

0

-

MICEX Index Futures

0

0

-

Sensex Index Futures

0

0

-

FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures

0

0

-

Stock Futures

1,753

2,879

-39.1%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

1-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

RMB Currency Futures - USD/CNH Futures 

373

349

6.9%

Gold Futures

0

0

-

Total Options

311,290

335,542

-7.2%

Hang Seng Index Options

47,670

42,977

10.9%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

5,748

5,388

6.7%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

24

15

60.0%

H-shares Index Options

27,726

26,819

3.4%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

330

608

-45.7%

Stock Options

229,792

259,734

-11.5%

Total Futures and Options

523,556

550,748

-4.9%

 

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Apr 2013

Mar 2013

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

896,451

994,979

-9.90%

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

81,555

88,448

-7.79%

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

345

404

-14.60%

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

99.92%

99.89%

N/A

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


69.62%
51.58%


69.58%
51.66%


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Apr 2013

Mar 2013

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

350,979

319,923

9.7%

–  Stock Futures

37,607

39,257

-4.2%

–  Interest Rates Futures

0

0

-

–  RMB Currency Futures

4,851

4,791

1.3%

–  Gold Futures

0

0

-

–  Equity Index Options

1,246,828

1,097,288

13.6%

–  Stock Options

5,140,302

4,758,454

8.0%

 

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Apr 2013
YTD

Apr 2012
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

12

25

-52.0%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

70,324

60,253

16.7%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

169,060

153,070

10.4%

Average no. of trades per trading day

968,016

842,984

14.8%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

8,225

25,372

-67.6%

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

72,830

110,584

-34.1%

Derivatives Market

Apr 2013
YTD

Apr 2012
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

202,908

192,683

5.3%

– Stock Futures

2,675

1,218

119.6%

– Interest Rates Futures

0

2

-100.0%

– RMB Currency Futures

411

-

-

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– Equity Index Options

73,435

61,455

19.5%

– Stock Options

265,882

229,932

15.6%

Clearing & Settlement

Apr 2013
YTD

Apr 2012
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

966,869

842,667

14.74%

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

87,310

78,106

11.78%

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

433

344

25.87%

 

# Includes the number of transfer of listings from GEM to Main Board
^  Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included
* Provisional figures only

 

Historical Records
up to 30 April 2013 

 

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

2013/01/30

23,174,639,554,061

4

2013/02/04

23,158,596,585,808

5

2013/01/22

23,141,347,249,941

6

2013/02/01

23,140,149,024,689

7

2013/01/21

23,097,666,249,380

8

2013/01/31

23,097,373,119,753

9

2013/01/23

23,085,380,606,572

10

2007/10/29

23,070,544,404,276

 

 

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

H-shares Index Futures

275,084

2013/03/25

265,227

2013/01/29

Hang Seng Index Futures

235,385

2011/08/09

198,789

2007/06/27

Hang Seng Index Options

116,835

2011/08/05

560,087

2012/06/27 

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures 

86,812

2011/08/09

21,682

2011/06/17 

H-shares Index Options

67,677

2012/09/14

948,132

2013/03/26

Stock Futures

27,966

2007/03/28

47,050

2013/03/27

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

20,802

2012/05/24

77,555

2012/10/29

Mini H-shares Index Futures

19,556

2011/08/09

6,684

2012/04/24

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

13,917

2012/05/18

32,651

2012/05/29