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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - April 2014

Date 08/05/2014

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first four months of 2014 was $67,607 million, a decrease of 4 per cent when compared with $70,324 million for the same period last year.
  • There were 27 new listings (including transfers from Growth Enterprise Market, or GEM, to Main Board) in the first four months of 2014, an increase of 125 per cent when compared with 12 in the same period last year.
  • Funds raised through IPOs for the first four months of 2014 was $47,735 million, an increase of 480 per cent when compared with $8,225 million for the same period last year.

 

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first four months of 2014 was 553,098 contracts, an increase of 1 per cent when compared with the 545,311 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of RMB Currency Futures for the first four months of 2014 was 1,068 contracts, an increase of 160 per cent when compared with the 411 contracts for the same period last year.
  • On 10 April 2014, the turnover of Mini H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 21,823 contracts.

 

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

 

Apr 2014

Apr 2013

End 2013

No. of listed companies

 1,667

1,558

 1,643

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

22,881.5

22,374.5

24,042.8

No. of newly listed companies *

2

1

110

No. of listed securities

9,331

7,890

8,522

No. of equity warrants

7

10

8

No. of derivatives warrants

5,263

4,634

4,715

No. of CBBCs

1,782

1,249

1,620

No. of unit trusts

131

116

129

No. of debt securities

477

319

403

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

 

  

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Apr 2014

Mar 2014

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,308,746

1,498,370

-13%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

65,437

71,351

-8%

No. of trading days

20

21

-

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

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

 

Apr 2014
($Mil)

Mar 2014
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

1,013,617.05
(77.4%)

1,173,114.75
(78.3%)

-13.6%

Derivative warrants

138,809.58
(10.6%)

149,977.91
(10.0%)

-7.4%

CBBCs

97,520.61
(7.5%)

114,634.96
(7.7%)

-14.9%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

58,392.70
(4.5%)

60,352.45
(4.0%)

-3.2%

( ) % 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 2014 was $24,792 million (1.9 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Apr 2014

Apr 2013

End 2013

No. of H shares

 187

175

182

No. of Red chips Stocks

129

 120

122

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 502

442

493

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

55.8%

56.3%

56.9%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

70.2%

71.7%

71.6%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Apr 2014

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

26662.41

-0.4%

-1.5%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

485.51

-8.3%

24.1%

Hang Seng Index

22133.97

-0.1%

-2.7%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

9779.72

-2.9%

-10.4%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4167.88

0.2%

-6.4%

CES China 120 Index ^

3723.32

0.0%

-8.6%

CES China HK Mainland Index +

5181.71

-1.8%

-4.1%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips
^ - tracks 80 Mainland-listed companies and 40 Hong Kong-listed Mainland enterprises
+ - tracks 40 Hong Kong-listed Mainland enterprises

 

Derivatives Market Turnover

 

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Apr 2014

Mar 2014

% Change

Total Futures

192,853

215,692

-10.6%

Hang Seng Index Futures

69,912

71,209

-1.8%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

27,230

28,019

-2.8%

H-shares Index Futures

80,219

96,940

-17.2%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

12,161

13,360

-9.0%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

42

101

-58.4%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

1,040

2,532

-58.9%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

2

3

-33.3%

CES China 120 Index Futures

138

96

43.8%

IBOVESPA Futures

0

0

-

MICEX Index Futures

0

0

-

S&P BSE Sensex Index Futures

0

0

-

FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures

0

0

-

Stock Futures

1,558

1,933

-19.4%

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 

552

1,499

-63.2%

Gold Futures

0

0

-

Total Options

355,358

331,362

7.2%

Hang Seng Index Options

30,386

29,731

2.2%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

3,710

3,649

1.7%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

0

0

-

H-shares Index Options

30,446

40,895

-25.6%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

0

38

-100.0%

Stock Options

290,816

257,049

13.1%

Total Futures and Options

548,211

547,053

0.2%

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Apr 2014

Mar 2014

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,052,206

1,175,964

-10.52%

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

90,536

91,867

-1.45%

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

361

435

-17.01%

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

99.93%

99.93%

N/A

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


70.42
52.45


70.98
52.81


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Apr 2014

Mar 2014

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

438,188

411,217

6.6%

–  Stock Futures

19,095

19,695

-3.0%

–  Interest Rates Futures

0

0

-

–  RMB Currency Futures

11,400

9,495

20.1%

–  Gold Futures

0

0

-

–  Equity Index Options

1,312,176

1,242,843

5.6%

–  Stock Options

5,804,743

5,458,789

6.3%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Apr 2014
YTD

Apr 2013
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies #

27

12

125.0%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

67,607

70,324

-3.9%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

135,059

169,060

-20.1%

Average no. of trades per trading day

1,104,111

968,016

14.1%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

47,735

8,225

480.4%

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

136,599

75,116ust

81.9%

Derivatives Market

Apr 2014
YTD

Apr 2013
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

201,589

202,908

-0.7%

– Stock Futures

1,630

2,675

-39.1%

– Interest Rates Futures

0

0

-

– RMB Currency Futures

1,068

411

159.6%

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– Equity Index Options

70,089

73,435

-4.6%

– Stock Options

278,722

265,882

4.8%

Clearing & Settlement

Apr 2014
YTD

Apr 2013
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,103,422

966,869

14.12%

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

90,027

87,310

3.11%

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

403

433

-6.93%

# 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 2014

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

2013/12/02

24,271,527,521,289

2

2013/12/03

24,193,519,377,510

3

2013/11/29

24,134,626,917,520

4

2013/12/09

24,116,587,381,535

5

2013/12/04

24,110,964,447,941

6

2014/01/02

24,093,887,485,876

7

2013/12/05

24,093,010,330,620

8

2013/12/06

24,053,539,516,728

9

2013/12/10

24,053,384,524,875

10

2013/12/31

24,042,805,866,135

 

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

389,031

2013/06/25

334,575

2013/12/24

Hang Seng Index Futures

271,426

2013/06/25

198,789

2007/06/27

Hang Seng Index Options

116,835

2011/08/05

560,087

2012/06/27

H-shares Index Options

113,156

2013/11/19

1,437,711

2013/12/19

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

86,812

2011/08/09

21,682

2011/06/17

Stock Futures

27,966

2007/03/28

47,050

2013/03/27

Mini H-shares Index Futures

21,823

2014/04/10

6,951

2013/09/23

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

20,802

2012/05/24

95,673

2013/11/19

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

13,917

2012/05/18

32,651

2012/05/29