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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - December 2011

Date 06/01/2012

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover in 2011 was $69,732 million, an increase of 1 per cent when compared with $69,117 million in 2010.
  • The average daily turnover of CBBCs in 2011 was $7,529 million, an increase of 29 per cent when compared with $5,845 million in 2010 and a record high. 

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options in 2011 was 572,275 contracts, an increase of 22 per cent when compared with 467,961 contracts in 2010 and a record high.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index futures for 2011 was 204,862 contracts, an increase of 19 per cent when compared with the turnover of 172,422 contracts in 2010 and a record high.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index options in 2011 was 62,837 contracts, an increase of 31 per cent when compared with the 48,073 contracts in 2010 and a record high.
  • The average daily turnover of stock options for 2011 was 302,750 contracts, an increase of 23 per cent when compared with the turnover of 246,474 contracts in 2010 and a record high.

 

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

Dec 2011

Dec 2010

End 2010

No. of listed companies

1,496

1,413

1,413

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

17,537

21,077

21,077

No. of newly listed companies *

20

21

113

No. of listed securities

6,723

7,900

7,900

No. of equity warrants

15

23

23

No. of derivatives warrants

4,027

5,148

5,148

No. of CBBC

901

1,064

1,064

No. of unit trusts

88

79

79

No. of debt securities

192

169

169

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

 Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

Dec 2011

Nov 2011

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

929,025

1,320,161

-30%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

46,451

60,007

-23%

No. of trading days

20

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) 

Dec 2011
($Mil)

Nov 2011
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

603,775.47
(65.0%)

842,259.25
(63.8%)

-28.3%

Derivative warrants

134,914.42
(14.5%)

195,528.80
(14.8%)

-31.0%

CBBC

159,545.30
(17.2%)

240,430.62
(18.2%)

-33.6%

Debt securities

61.65
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

67.94
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

-9.3%

( ) % 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

Dec 2011

Dec 2010

End 2010

No. of H shares

168

163

163

No. of Red chips Stocks

107

102

102

No. of NHMPE

365

327

327

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

55.5%

56.6%

56.6%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

67.9%

65.8%

68.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

 

 Index Performance
Month-end figures

Dec 2011

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

22252.19

2.3%

-18.8%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

474.80

1.5%

-41.4%

Hang Seng Index

18434.39

2.5%

-20.0%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

9936.48

4.5%

-21.7%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

3682.18

1.7%

-11.7%

 

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Dec 2011

Nov 2011

% Change

Total Futures

169,714

218,031

-22.2%

Hang Seng Index Futures

71,314

93,644

-23.8%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

35,343

48,565

-27.2%

H-shares Index Futures

54,595

65,549

-16.7%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

6,788

8,555

-20.7%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures 1

15

35

-57.1%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures 2

533

395

34.9%

Stock Futures

1,124

1,284

-12.5%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

0

2

-100.0%

1-Month HIBOR Futures

1

0

-

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

Gold Futures

1

3

-66.7%

Total Options

266,504

317,384

-16.0%

Hang Seng Index Options

29,284

34,903

-16.1%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

3,314

4,110

-19.4%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options 3

43

0

-

H-shares Index Options

16,478

13,889

18.6%

Flexible H-shares Index Options 4

139

136

2.2%

Stock Options

217,246

264,346

-17.8%

Total Futures and Options

436,218

535,415

-18.5%

 

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)

Dec 2011

Nov 2011

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

682,069

851,759

-19.92%

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

72,126

74,283

-2.90%

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

249

314

-20.70%

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

99.91

99.88

N/A

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


70.17%
50.23%


70.82%
50.58%


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Dec 2011

Nov 2011

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

– Equity Index Futures

238,065

258,474

-7.9%

– Stock Futures

11,277

17,577

-35.8%

– Interest Rates Futures

49

110

-55.5%

– Gold Futures

0

21

-100.0%

– Equity Index Options

357,913

649,128

-44.9%

– Stock Options

5,329,494

7,801,740

-31.7%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Dec 2011
YTD

Dec 2010
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

101

113

-11%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

69,732

69,117

1%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

162,225

140,527

15%

Average no. of trades per trading day

873,389

778,878

12%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

258,912

449,477

-42%

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

488,274

858,721

-43%

Derivatives Market 

Dec 2011
YTD

Dec 2010
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

– Equity Index Futures

204,862

172,422

18.8%

– Stock Futures

1,809

965

87.5%

– Interest Rates Futures

3

4

-25.0%

– Gold Futures

15

23

-34.8%

– Equity Index Options

62,837

48,073

30.7%

– Stock Options

302,750

246,474

22.8%

Clearing & Settlement 

Dec 2011
YTD

Dec 2010
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

872,796

778,854

12.06%

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

83,760

80,149

4.51%

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

468

574

-18.47%

 

 

# 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 31 December 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

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 

41,229

2009/12/11

380,344

2011/12/28 

Stock Futures 

27,966

2007/03/28

26,482

2011/08/25 

Mini H-shares Index Futures 

19,556

2011/08/09

6,030

2011/06/17 

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

15,000

2011/09/14

36,441

2011/12/29 

Mini Hang Seng Index Options 

10,618

2011/08/05

22,086

2011/08/29