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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - April 2015

Date 07/05/2015

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first four months of 2015 was $113,423 million, an increase of 68 per cent when compared with $67,607 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover for April 2015 reached a record single-month high of $200,097 million.
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first four months of 2015 was $17,225 million, an increase of 145 per cent when compared with $7,043 million for the same period last year
  • The average daily turnover of ETFs for the first four months of 2015 was $10,311 million, an increase of 278 per cent when compared with $2,730 million for the same period last year.
  • On 27 April 2015, market capitalisation exceeded $31,000 billion for the first time and reached $31,207.7 billion.
  • Funds raised through IPOs for the first four months of 2014 was $55,255 million, an increase of 16 per cent when compared with $47,742 million for the same period last year.

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first four months of 2015 was 798,461 contracts, an increase of 44 per cent when compared with the 553,098 contracts for the same period last year.
  • On 13 April 2015, the turnover of futures and options reached a record high of 1,725,327 contracts.
  • On 13 and 28 April 2015, the turnover and open interest of stock options reached record highs of 1,221,324 and 11,057,474 contracts respectively.
  • On 17 April 2015, the turnover of after-hours futures trading reached a record high of 79,586 contracts.
  • On 20 April 2015, the turnover of Mini H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 60,341 contracts.
  • On 28 April 2015, the open interest of H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 429,773 contracts.

 

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

 

Apr 2015

Apr 2014

End 2014

No. of listed companies

 1,780

1,667

 1,752

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

30,995.2

22,881.5

25,071.8

No. of newly listed companies *

5

2

122

No. of listed securities

10,095

9,331

9,060

No. of equity warrants

14

7

10

No. of derivatives warrants

5,470

5,263

4,938

No. of CBBCs

2,007

1,782

1,579

No. of unit trusts

139

131

134

No. of debt securities

678

477

640

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

  

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Apr 2015

Mar 2015

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

3,801,844

1,984,477

91.6%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

200,097

90,203

121.8%

No. of trading days

19

22

-

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

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

 

Apr 2015
($Mil)

Mar 2015
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

2,868,337.58
(75.4%)

1,346,566.62
(67.9%)

113.0%

Derivative warrants

480,416.48
(12.6%)

322,484.55
(16.3%)

49.0%

CBBCs

151,810.33
(4.0%)

125,163.78
(6.3%)

21.3%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

299,656.94
(7.9%)

189,581.60
(9.6%)

58.1%

( ) % 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 March 2015 was $35,762 million (0.9 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Apr 2015

Apr 2014

End 2014

No. of H shares

 207

187

202

No. of Red chips Stocks

143

 129

133

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 546

502

541

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

62.4%

55.8%

60.1%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

76.0%

70.2%

70.7%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Apr 2015

% Change 
over 1 Month

% Change 
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

34250.36

12.8%

28.5%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

690.89

36.9%

42.3%

Hang Seng Index

28133.00

13.0%

27.1%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

14431.11

16.9%

47.6%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

5554.67

19.5%

33.3%

CES China 120 Index ^

6529.70

17.1%

75.4%

CES China HK Mainland Index +

7334.97

15.0%

41.6%

# - 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 2015

Mar 2015

% Change

Total Futures

357,424

236,412

51.2%

Hang Seng Index Futures

89,959

63,097

42.6%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

45,063

28,490

58.2%

H-shares Index Futures

175,756

112,901

55.7%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

38,883

25,295

53.7%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

42

51

-17.6%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

215

2,459

-91.3%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

5

1

400.0%

CES China 120 Index Futures

245

65

276.9%

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

6,228

2,858

117.9%

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 

787

994

-20.8%

Gold Futures

0

0

-

London Aluminium Mini Futures

32

33

-3.0%

London Zinc Mini Futures

54

36

50.0%

London Copper Mini Futures

155

131

18.3%

Total Options

844,864

427,572

97.6%

Hang Seng Index Options

44,956

29,882

50.4%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

5,634

3,748

50.3%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

0

9

-100.0%

H-shares Index Options

67,894

41,714

62.8%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

566

61

827.9%

Stock Options

725,814

352,158

106.1%

Total Futures and Options

1,202,287

663,984

81.1%

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Apr 2015

Mar 2015

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

2,167,106

1,260,976

71.86%

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

133,284

91,675

45.39%

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

1,022

390

162.05%

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

99.88

99.93

N/A

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


73.14
55.99


71.67
54.46


N/A 
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Apr 2015

Mar 2015

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

554,838

490,485

13.1%

–  Stock Futures

29,282

17,347

68.8%

–  Interest Rates Futures

35

35

0.0%

–  RMB Currency Futures

10,219

12,949

-21.1%

–  Gold Futures

0

0

-

–  London Metal Mini Futures

678

576

17.7%

–  Equity Index Options

1,678,225

1,335,842

25.6%

–  Stock Options

8,938,132

6,545,827

36.5%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Apr 2015
YTD

Apr 2014
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies #

33

27

22.2%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

113,423

67,607

67.8%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

193,081

135,059

43.0%

Average no. of trades per trading day

1,464,966

1,104,111

32.7%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

55,255

47,742

15.7%

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

141,786

141,442

0.2%

Derivatives Market

Apr 2015
YTD

Apr 2014
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

260,282

201,589

29.1%

– Stock Futures

3,587

1,630

120.1%

– Interest Rates Futures

1

0

-

– RMB Currency Futures

916

1,068

-14.3%

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– London Metal Mini Futures +

287

-

-

– Equity Index Options

83,974

70,089

19.8%

– Stock Options

449,414

278,722

61.2%

Clearing & Settlement

Apr 2015 
YTD

Apr 2014
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,416,266

1,103,422

28.35%

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

100,593

90,027

11.74%

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

550

403

36.48%

# 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
+ Trading in London Metal Mini Futures commenced on 01 Dec 2014

 

Historical Records
up to 30 April 2015

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

2015/04/09

293,910,756,648

2

2015/04/13

266,098,632,854

3

2015/04/08

252,396,050,844

4

2015/04/14

239,903,336,931

5

2015/04/10

222,888,834,174

6

2015/04/15

218,018,391,899

7

2015/04/17

215,953,404,099

8

2015/04/20

212,447,724,665

9

2007/10/03

210,505,533,155

10

2007/10/16

201,413,369,933

 

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank

Date

Market Capitalisation ($)

1

2015/04/27

31,207,701,541,939

2

2015/04/28

31,201,357,832,733

3

2015/04/29

31,147,874,933,908

4

2015/04/30

30,995,152,430,547

5

2015/04/24

30,736,279,547,053

6

2015/04/22

30,571,222,249,556

7

2015/04/23

30,557,196,401,093

8

2015/04/13

30,546,059,888,718

9

2015/04/21

30,256,536,370,899

10

2015/04/16

30,246,334,469,650

 

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

1,221,324

2015/04/13

11,057,474

2015/04/28

H-shares Index Futures

389,031

2013/06/25

429,773

2015/04/28

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

115,258

2014/12/05

1,560,676

2014/12/29

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

86,812

2011/08/09

21,682

2011/06/17

Mini H-shares Index Futures

60,341

2015/04/20

16,436

2014/12/11

Stock Futures

27,966

2007/03/28

47,050

2013/03/27

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