HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

On 14 May 2007 , the securities market turnover reached a record high of $96,040 million.
On 17 May 2007 , the Hang Seng Index reached a record closing high of 20994.61.
The securities market capitalisation reached an all-time high of $15,006 billion on 23 May 2007 , exceeding $15 trillion for the first time.
On 30 May 2007 , the daily turnover of Hang Seng Index Options reached an all-time high of 63,791 contracts.

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

	May 2007	May 2006	End 2006
No. of listed companies	1,189	1,144	1,173
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	14,982	9,411	13,338
No. of newly listed companies	5	3	62
No. of listed securities	4,040	2,835	3,383
No. of equity warrants	31	26	28
No. of derivatives warrants	2,581	1,475	1,959
No. of CBBC*	35	-	24
No. of unit trusts	23	14	15
No. of debt securities	177	172	180

* The first CBBC were listed on 12 June 2006

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	May 2007	Apr 2007	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,333,976	997,405	34%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	63,523	55,411	15%
No. of trading days	21	18	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

	May 2007($Mil)	Apr 2007($Mil)	% Chan ge
Equities	1,108,965.27 (83.1%)	811,917.34 (81.4%)	36.6%
Derivative warrants	203,518.52 (15.3%)	172,455.57 (17.3%)	18.0%
CBBC	1,979.39 (0.1%)	1,256.05 (0.1%)	57.6%
Debt securities	0.10 (0.0%) (less than 0.1%)	0.44 (0.0%) (less than 0.1%)	-78.0%

( ) % of market total

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

	May 2007	May 2006	End 2006
No. of H shares	143	128	141
No. of Red chips Stocks	91	91	90
No. of NHMPE	140	128	136
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	50.3%	40.9%	50.3%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	63.5%	54.0%	60.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	May 2007	% Change over 1 Month	% Change YTD
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	24611.52	2.3%	31.2%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	1604.29	14.0%	38.1%
Hang Seng Index	20634.47	1.6%	30.1%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	10739.32	7.0%	61.1%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3619.26	4.8%	68.2%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts) #
	May 2007	Apr 2007	% Change
Total Futures	102,770	103,889	-1.1%
Hang Seng Index Futures	58,787	61,929	-5.1%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	11,666	11,052	5.6%
H-shares Index Futures	31,703	29,073	9.0%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures¹	34	174	-80.5%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	11	27	-59.3%
Stock Futures	454	1,436	-68.4%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	114	197	-42.1%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	1	1	0.0%
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	144,428	154,246	-6.4%
Hang Seng Index Options	29,206	27,872	4.8%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	152	188	-19.1%
H-shares Index Options	5,972	4,123	44.8%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	2	17	-88.2%
Stock Options	109,097	122,046	-10.6%
Total Futures and Options	247,199	258,135	-4.2%

# Total average daily volume is the sum of the respective average daily volume of the individual products.
¹Trading in Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures commenced on 16 Apr 2007 .

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	May 2007	Apr 2007	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	550,340	479,891	14.68%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	58,941	54,165	8.82%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	938	839	11.80%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.68	99.77	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	63.38% 41.29%	62.36% 40.05%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	May 2007	Apr 2007	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	218,074	198,469	9.9%
- Stock Futures	4,191	5,665	-26.0%
- Interest Rates Futures	12,409	11,831	4.9%
- Equity Index Options	400,148	338,869	18.1%
- Stock Options	3,304,080	3,098,809	6.6%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	May 2007 YTD	May 2006 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	24	21	14%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	55,546	33,246	67%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	66,429	34,621	92%
Average no. of trades per trading day	464,962	255,435	82%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	93,028	18,576	401%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	136,690	95,028	44%
Derivatives Market	May 2007 YTD	May 2006 YTD	% Change
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	103,713	77,516	33.8%
- Stock Futures	1,853	216	757.9%
- Interest Rates Futures	163	76	114.5%
- Equity Index Options	35,810	18,091	97.9%
- Stock Options	120,960	66,597	81.6%
Clearing & Settlement	May 2007 YTD	May 2006 YTD	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	464,957	255,430	82.03%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	52,681	36,197	45.54%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	825	543	51.93%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 May 2007

Top 10 Hang Seng Index Closes

Rank	Date	Close
1	2007/05/17	20994.61
2	2007/05/14	20979.24
3	2007/05/16	20937.26
4	2007/05/21	20927.75
5	2007/05/18	20904.84
6	2007/05/07	20896.64
7	2007/05/15	20868.15
8	2007/05/09	20844.78
9	2007/05/22	20843.92
10	2007/05/04	20841.08

Top 10 Daily Market Turnover
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank	Date	Turnover ($)
1	2007/05/14	96,040,371,519
2	2007/02/28	80,859,034,731
3	1998/08/28	79,002,608,619
4	2007/05/15	77,816,181,924
5	2007/05/31	77,650,209,979
6	2007/05/30	76,743,482,271
7	2007/01/04	76,680,647,923
8	2006/10/27	76,163,013,434
9	2007/03/05	72,768,457,913
10	2007/01/05	70,824,656,602

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank	Date	Market Capitalisation($)
1	2007/05/23	15,006,050,743,387
2	2007/05/31	14,981,759,537,350
3	2007/05/17	14,913,384,432,547
4	2007/05/21	14,902,129,655,266
5	2007/05/28	14,889,280,549,627
6	2007/05/22	14,887,746,538,489
7	2007/05/14	14,879,776,895,526
8	2007/05/16	14,877,416,183,529
9	2007/05/29	14,871,914,237,412
10	2007/05/18	14,861,061,407,565

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

Product	Record High Daily Volume		Record High Open Interest
	Contracts	Date	Contracts	Date
Hang Seng Index Futures	191,025	2006/09/26	190,316	2006/11/28
Stock Options	414,243	2007/03/29	4,089,426	2007/03/28
H-shares Index Futures	91,499	2007/03/28	112,026	2007/03/28
Hang Seng Index Options	63,791	2007/05/30	424,874	2007/03/28
H-shares Index Options	33,126	2007/03/06	166,238	2007/03/28

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HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - May 2007