HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

On 30 March 2007 , the market capitalisation for the Growth Enterprise Market reached an all-time high of $108.73 billion.
Total trading volume of all derivatives market products in March 2007 reached a record high of 6,373,213 contracts, and the daily turnover of 565,836 contracts on 29 March 2007 was the highest in history.
On 28 March 2007 , total open interest for all derivatives market products reached an all-time high of 4,997,277 contracts.

Listed Securities (Main Board and GEM)

Month-end figures

	Mar 2007	Mar 2006	End 2006
No. of listed companies	1,180	1,141	1,173
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	13,551	9,416	13,338
No. of newly listed companies	5	8	62
No. of listed securities	3,844	2,715	3,383
No. of equity warrants	29	26	28
No. of derivatives warrants	2,396	1,366	1,959
No. of CBBC*	41	-	24
No. of unit trusts	16	13	15
No. of debt securities	178	165	180

* The first CBBC were listed on 12 June 2006

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Mar 2007	Feb 2007	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,098,301	913,871	20%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	49,923	50,771	-2%
No. of trading days	22	18	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Mar 2007	Mar 2006	End 2006
No. of H shares	141	124	141
No. of Red chips Stocks	90	90	90
No. of NHMPE	139	127	136
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	49.6%	41.6%	50.3%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	61.9%	53.5%	60.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Mar 2007	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge YTD
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	23487.47	1.8%	26.2%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	1349.71	1.7%	6.3%
Hang Seng Index	19800.93	0.8%	25.3%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	9616.21	3.6%	43.4%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3435.67	2.4%	57.3%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts) #
	Mar 2007	Feb 2007	% Change
Total Futures	106,045	105,7 3 6	0. 3 %
Hang Seng Index Futures	59,615	62,979	-5. 3 %
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	11,577	12, 3 49	-6. 3 %
H-shares Index Futures	3 0,7 3 2	28,085	9.4%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	27	24	12.5%
Stock Futures	3 ,912	2,127	8 3 .9%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	182	172	5.8%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	0	0	-
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	18 3 ,647	1 3 1,5 3 2	3 9.6%
Hang Seng Index Options	3 3 ,225	3 3 ,075	0.5%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	5 3 8	641	-16.1%
H-shares Index Options	7,482	4,097	82.6%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	6	17	-64.7%
Stock Options	142, 3 96	9 3 ,70 3	52.0%
Total Futures and Options	289,692	2 3 7,269	22.1%

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

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Mar 2007	Feb 2007	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	418,860	424,998	-1.44%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	51,294	49,082	4.51%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	754	727	3.71%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.77	99.75	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	61.51% 40.05%	59.94% 40.02%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Mar 2007	Feb 2007	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	191,266	192,847	-0.8%
- Stock Futures	20,782	1 3 ,657	52.2%
- Interest Rates Futures	9,0 3 5	6,500	3 9.0%
- Equity Index Options	3 40, 3 1 3	4 3 0,677	-21.0%
- Stock Options	2,569,9 3 5	3 ,000,755	-14.4%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Mar 2007 YTD	Mar 2006 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	13	15	-13%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	52,884	31,176	70%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	62,821	34,425	82%
Average no. of trades per trading day	431,707	245,036	76%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	19,728	12,148	62%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	43,707	32,799	33%
Derivatives Market	Mar 2007 YTD	Mar 2006 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	104,577	71,094	47.1%
- Stock Futures	2,448	16 3	1401.8%
- Interest Rates Futures	170	97	75. 3 %
- Equity Index Options	3 7,021	16,401	125.7%
- Stock Options	124,662	61,86 3	101.5%
Clearing & Settlement	Mar 2007 YTD	Mar 2006 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	431,701	245,029	76.18%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	50,130	34,261	46.32%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	782	496	57.66%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 March 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 - March 2007