HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

On 22 February 2007 , the securities market capitalisation hit an all-time high of $13,979 billion.
On 28 February 2007, the securities market turnover reached a record high of $80,859 million and a total of 639,520 trades was concluded, the highest ever.
On 28 February 2007 , the turnover of Hang Seng Index Options reached an all-time high of 54,579 contracts.
On 28 February 2007 , the turnover of stock futures reached an all-time high of 7,954 contracts.

Listed Securities (Main Board and GEM)

Month-end figures

	Feb 2007	Feb 2006	End 2006
No. of listed companies	1,176	1,139	1,173
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	13,224	9,192	13,338
No. of newly listed companies	7	5	62
No. of listed securities	3,752	2,739	3,383
No. of equity warrants	27	27	28
No. of derivatives warrants	2,307	1,391	1,959
No. of CBBC*	44	-	24
No. of unit trusts	15	13	15
No. of debt securities	179	165	180

* The first CBBC were listed on 12 June 2006

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Feb 2007	Jan 2007	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	913,871	1,266,635	-28%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	50,771	57,574	-12%
No. of trading days	18	22	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Feb 2007	Feb 2006	End 2006
No. of H shares	141	123	141
No. of Red chips Stocks	89	91	90
No. of NHMPE	138	126	136
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	49.2%	41.3%	50.3%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	63.1%	57.2%	60.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Feb 2007	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge YTD
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	23061.18	-3.2%	24.4%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	1327.43	5.8%	11.4%
Hang Seng Index	19651.51	-2.3%	23.5%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	9283.67	-3.3%	42.7%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3356.49	-0.4%	57.8%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts) #
	Feb 2007	Jan 2007	% Change
Total Futures	105,7 3 6	109,5 3 9	- 3 .5%
Hang Seng Index Futures	62,979	61,284	2.8%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	12, 3 49	12,998	-5.0%
H-shares Index Futures	28,085	3 3 ,819	-17.0%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	24	3 6	- 3 3 . 3 %
Stock Futures	2,127	1,247	70.6%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	172	155	11.0%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	0	0	-
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	1 3 1,5 3 2	164, 3 88	-20.0%
Hang Seng Index Options	3 3 ,075	25,65 3	28.9%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	641	3 62	77.1%
H-shares Index Options	4,097	6,102	- 3 2.9%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	17	1 3	3 0.8%
Stock Options	9 3 ,70 3	1 3 2,258	-29.2%
Total Futures and Options	2 3 7,269	27 3 ,927	-1 3 .4%

# Total average daily volume is the sum of the respective average daily volume of the individual products.

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Feb 2007	Jan 2007	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	424,998	450,028	-5.56%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	49,082	49,823	-1.49%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	727	854	-14.87%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.75	99.76	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	59.94% 40.02%	60.10% 40.16%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Feb 2007	Jan 2007	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	192,847	191,9 3 8	0.5%
- Stock Futures	1 3 ,657	6,476	110.9%
- Interest Rates Futures	6,500	3 ,754	7 3 .1%
- Equity Index Options	4 3 0,677	419,265	2.7%
- Stock Options	3 ,000,755	2,984,190	0.6%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Feb 2007 YTD	Feb 2006 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	8	7	14%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	54,513	31,693	72%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	59,612	33,990	75%
Average no. of trades per trading day	438,770	245,219	79%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	7,851	2,208	256%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	19,347	15,727	23%
Derivatives Market	Feb 2007 YTD	Feb 2006 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	106,02 3	71,0 3 6	49. 3 %
- Stock Futures	1,64 3	177	828.2%
- Interest Rates Futures	16 3	111	46.8%
- Equity Index Options	3 4,695	17,006	104.0%
- Stock Options	114,909	60,985	88.4%
Clearing & Settlement	Feb 2007 YTD	Feb 2006 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	438,764	245,216	78.93
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	49,490	34,152	44.91
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	797	481	65.70

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 28 February 2007

Top 10 Hang Seng Index Closes

Top 10 Daily Market Turnover
(Main Board and GEM)

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Record High for Top-5 Derivatives Market Products (Based on Contract Volume)

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - February 2007