HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

- Securities Market

The average daily turnover for the first two months of 2010 was $67,702 million, an increase of 55 per cent when compared with $43,639 million for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of ETFs for the first two months of 2010 was $2,018 million, an increase of 17 per cent when compared with $1,720 million for the same period last year.
Initial public offerings, or IPOs, raised $27,213 million in the first two months of this year, an increase of 1,813 per cent when compared with $1,423 million for the same period last year; and $61,636 million was raised through IPOs and other share sales in the first two months of the year, an increase of 421 per cent when compared with $11,834 million for the same period last year the same period last year.

- Derivatives Market

The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first two months of 2010 was 444,351 contracts, an increase of 26 per cent when compared with 351,468 contracts for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of equity index options for the first two months of 2010 was 44,299 contracts, an increase of 93 per cent when compared with 22,924 contracts for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of stock options for the first two months of 2010 was 214,587 contracts, an increase of 34 per cent when compared with 160,412 contracts for the same period last year.

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

	Feb 2010	Feb 2009	End 2009
No. of listed companies	1,326	1,265	1,319
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	17,204	9,284	17,874
No. of newly listed companies *	5	3	73
No. of listed securities	6,930	5,803	6,616
No. of equity warrants	21	33	26
No. of derivatives warrants	3,996	2,794	3,367
No. of CBBC	1,367	1,504	1,692
No. of unit trusts	59	33	52
No. of debt securities	158	171	157

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

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Feb 2010	Jan 2010	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,013,334	1,559,327	-35%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	56,296	77,966	-28%
No. of trading days	18	20	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Feb 2010	Feb 2009	End 2009
No. of H shares	156	150	156
No. of Red chips Stocks	97	96	96
No. of NHMPE	274	222	271
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	57.7%	59.6%	58.4%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	68.2%	71.0%	71.6%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance

Month-end figures

	Feb 2010	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	24240.75	2.0%	52.3%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	741.42	5.2%	98.7%
Hang Seng Index	20608.70	2.4%	60.9%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	11543.73	0.4%	67.2%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	4059.78	4.8%	40.0%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Feb 2010	Jan 2010	% Change
Total Futures	181,196	189,307	-4.3%
Hang Seng Index Futures	90,026	92,565	-2.7%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	36,367	38,523	-5.6%
H-shares Index Futures	51,369	53,905	-4.7%
Mini H-shares Index Futures	2,931	3,405	-13.9%
Stock Futures	492	864	-43.1%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	1	15	-93.3%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	0	0	-
3 -Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Gold Futures	11	31	-64.5%
Total Options	224,183	290,120	-22.7%
Hang Seng Index Options	31,285	34,114	-8.3%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	1,495	1,631	-8.3%
Flexible Hang Seng Index Options ¹	0	0	-
H-shares Index Options	8,346	11,401	-26.8%
Flexible H-shares Index Options ²	15	0	-
Stock Options	183,046	242,975	-24.7%
Total Futures and Options	405,378	479,427	-15.4%

¹Trading in Flexible Hang Seng Index Options commenced on 08 Feb 2010
² Trading in Flexible H-shares Index Options commenced on 08 Feb 2010

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Feb 2010	Jan 2010	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	663,099	890,948	-25.58%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	69,642	83,443	-16.54%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	437	670	-34.78%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.91	99.84	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	69.77% 48.70%	69.84% 48.34%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Feb 2010	Jan 2010	% Chan ge
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	175,032	181,483	-3.6%
- Stock Futures	6,059	5,113	18.5%
- Interest Rates Futures	277	257	7.8%
- Gold Futures	46	139	-66.9%
- Equity Index Options	429,338	411,715	4.3%
- Stock Options	4,829,287	4,718,717	2.3%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Feb 2010 YTD	Feb 2009 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies #	7	5	40%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	67,702	43,639	55%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	128,015	78,658	63%
Average no. of trades per trading day	783,027	513,508	52%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	27,213	1,423	1,813%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	61,636	11,834	421%
Derivatives Market	Feb 2010 YTD	Feb 2009 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	184,748	167,020	10.6%
- Stock Futures	687	1,062	-35.3%
- Interest Rates Futures	8	19	-57.9%
- Gold Futures **	21	31	-32.3%
- Equity Index Options	44,299	22,924	93.2%
- Stock Options	214,587	160,412	33.8%
Clearing & Settlement	Feb 2010 YTD	Feb 2009 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	783,019	513,501	52.49%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	76,905	53,322	44.23%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	560	378	48.15%

# Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board
* Provisional figures only
** Trading in Gold Futures commenced on 20 Oct 2008

Historical Records
up to 28 February 2010

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 2010