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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - January 2012

Date 06/02/2012

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover in January 2012 was $55,618 million, a decrease of 26 per cent when compared with $75,016 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of CBBCs in January 2012 was $7,084 million, an increase of 22 per cent when compared with $5,816 million for the same period in 2011.
  • There were 11 new listings in January 2012, an increase of 22 per cent when compared with 9 for the same period in 2011.

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options in January 2012 was 493,038 contracts, a decrease of 3 per cent when compared with 506,832 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index futures in January 2012 was 172,586 contracts, an increase of 7 per cent when compared with 161,391 contracts for the same period last year.
  • On 31 January 2012, the open interest of HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures reached a record high of 45,280 contracts.

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

Jan 2012

Jan 2011

End 2011

No. of listed companies

1,506

1,420

1,496

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

19,233

21,234

17,537

No. of newly listed companies *

11

9

101

No. of listed securities

6,738

8,276

6,723

No. of equity warrants

15

22

15

No. of derivatives warrants

3,991

5,444

4,027

No. of CBBC

927

1,134

901

No. of unit trusts

101

82

88

No. of debt securities

194

170

192

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

Jan 2012

Dec 2011

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,001,131

929,025

8%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

55,618

46,451

20%

No. of trading days

18

20

-

* 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) 

Jan 2012
($Mil)

Dec 2011
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

710,289.25
(70.9%)

603,775.47
(65.0%)

17.6%

Derivative warrants

127,903.67
(12.8%)

134,914.42
(14.5%)

-5.2%

CBBC

127,520.67
(12.7%)

159,545.30
(17.2%)

-20.1%

Debt securities

136.02
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

61.65
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

120.6%

( ) % 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

Jan 2012

Jan 2011

End 2011

No. of H shares

168

163

168

No. of Red chips Stocks

107

102

107

No. of NHMPE

370

330

365

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

55.3%

55.7%

55.5%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

68.7%

64.3%

66.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Jan 2012

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

24720.75

11.1%

-11.6%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

467.32

-1.6%

-38.2%

Hang Seng Index

20390.49

10.6%

-13.0%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

11299.05

13.7%

-10.0%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

3913.27

6.3%

-5.8%

 

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Jan 2012

Dec 2011

% Change

Total Futures

173,734

169,714

2.4%

Hang Seng Index Futures

75,611

71,314

6.0%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

32,713

35,343

-7.4%

H-shares Index Futures

57,261

54,595

4.9%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

5,709

6,788

-15.9%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures 1

169

15

1026.7%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures 2

1,123

533

110.7%

Stock Futures

1,146

1,124

2.0%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

1

0

-

1-Month HIBOR Futures

1

1

0.0%

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

Gold Futures

0

1

-100.0%

Total Options

319,304

266,504

19.8%

Hang Seng Index Options

33,102

29,284

13.0%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

3,349

3,314

1.1%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options 3

0

43

-100.0%

H-shares Index Options

17,345

16,478

5.3%

Flexible H-shares Index Options 4

0

139

-100.0%

Stock Options

265,509

217,246

22.2%

Total Futures and Options

493,038

436,218

13.0%

 

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)

Jan 2012

Dec 2011

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

793,097

682,069

16.28%

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

74,583

72,126

3.41%

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

333

249

33.73%

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

99.90

99.91

N/A

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


70.13%
50.33%


70.17%
50.23%


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Jan 2012

Dec 2011

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

– Equity Index Futures

263,343

238,065

10.6%

– Stock Futures

12,243

11,277

8.6%

– Interest Rates Futures

59

49

20.4%

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– Equity Index Options

497,148

357,913

38.9%

– Stock Options

6,327,820

5,329,494

18.7%

 

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Jan 2012
YTD

Jan 2011
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

11

9

22%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

55,618

75,016

-26%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

145,852

163,658

-11%

Average no. of trades per trading day

793,315

801,360

-1%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

1,546

2,016

-23%

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

5,027

22,354

-78%

Derivatives Market 

Jan 2012
YTD

Jan 2011
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

– Equity Index Futures

172,586

161,391

6.9%

– Stock Futures

1,146

1,697

-32.5%

– Interest Rates Futures

1

3

-66.7%

– Gold Futures

-

35

-

– Equity Index Options

53,796

51,685

4.1%

– Stock Options

265,509

292,021

-9.1%

Clearing & Settlement 

Jan 2012
YTD

Jan 2011
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

793,097

801,317

-1.03%

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

74,583

83,822

-11.02%

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

333

537

-37.99%

 

 

# 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 January 2012 

 

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

45,280

2012/01/31 

Mini Hang Seng Index Options 

10,618

2011/08/05

22,086

2011/08/29