HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

- Securities Market

The average daily turnover for the first five months of 2010 was $66,210 million, an increase of 21 per cent when compared with $54,926 million for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first five months of 2010 was $9,472 million, an increase of 64 per cent when compared with $5,770 million for the same period last year.
There were 23 newly listed companies (including one company transfer of listing from GEM to Main Board) for the first five months of 2010, an increase of 109 per cent when compared with 11 companies for the same period last year.
A total of $46,169 million was raised by initial public offerings, or IPOs, for the first five months of 2010, an increase of 271 per cent when compared with $12,441 million for the same period last year.

- Derivatives Market

The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first five months of 2010 was 435,457 contracts, an increase of 4 per cent when compared with 420,375 contracts for the same period last year.
On 27 May 2010, the open interest of Mini Hang Seng Index Options reached a record high of 10,804 contracts.
On 27 May 2010, turnover of Mini H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 7,914 contracts.

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

	May 2010	May 2009	End 2009
No. of listed companies	1,338	1,269	1,319
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	16,764	13,745	17,874
No. of newly listed companies *	7	3	73
No. of listed securities	7,068	5,675	6,616
No. of equity warrants	23	33	26
No. of derivatives warrants	4,399	2,640	3,367
No. of CBBC	1,076	1,525	1,692
No. of unit trusts	72	38	52
No. of debt securities	157	167	157

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

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	May 2010	Apr 2010	% Change
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,342,495	1,328,104	1%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	67,125	69,900	-4%
No. of trading days	20	19	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	May 2010	May 2009	End 2009
No. of H shares	156	150	156
No. of Red chips Stocks	97	96	97
No. of NHMPE	283	225	271
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	58.7%	57.8%	58.4%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	67.8%	70.6%	71.6%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	May 2010	% Change over 1 Month	% Change over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	23277.99	-6.4%	7.8%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	770.86	-13.5%	37.9%
Hang Seng Index	19765.19	-6.4%	8.8%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	11494.31	-5.6%	10.2%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3735.22	-6.6%	-1.4%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	May 2010	Apr 2010	% Change
Total Futures	202,743	164,674	23.1%
Hang Seng Index Futures	95,882	77,508	23.7%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	40,035	30,226	32.5%
H-shares Index Futures	61,204	52,620	16.3%
Mini H-shares Index Futures	4,996	3,657	36.6%
Stock Futures	583	646	-9.8%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	4	0	-
1-Month HIBOR Futures	0	0	-
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Gold Futures	40	16	150.0%
Total Options	315,787	241,616	30.7%
Hang Seng Index Options	36,014	29,342	22.7%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	1,973	1,481	33.2%
Flexible Hang Seng Index Options ¹	0	0	-
H-shares Index Options	12,499	13,734	-9.0%
Flexible H-shares Index Options ²	0	-	-
Stock Options	265,301	197,059	34.6%
Total Futures and Options	518,530	406,290	27.6%

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)	May 2010	Apr 2010	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	814,859	846,008	-3.68%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	81,907	83,057	-1.38%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	598	649	-7.86%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.83	99.88	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository – % of total issued shares – % of the total market capitalisation	71.31%49.28%	70.81%49.67%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	May 2010	Apr 2010	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
– Equity Index Futures	175,147	181,204	-3.3%
– Stock Futures	8,127	8,245	-1.4%
– Interest Rates Futures	259	219	18.3%
– Gold Futures	34	82	-58.5%
– Equity Index Options	472,604	415,885	13.6%
– Stock Options	5,525,602	4,850,813	13.9%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	May 2010 YTD	May 200 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies #	23	11	109%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	66,210	54,926	21%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	124,661	87,711	42%
Average no. of trades per trading day	787,676	636,503	24%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	46,169	12,441	271%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	143,503	187,993	-24%
Derivatives Market	May 2010 YTD	May 2009 YTD	% Change
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
– Equity Index Futures	175,558	182,050	-3.6%
– Stock Futures	618	1,108	-44.2%
– Interest Rates Futures	4	18	-77.8%
– Gold Futures	22	28	-21.4%
– Equity Index Options	43,348	27,224	59.2%
– Stock Options	215,906	209,948	2.8%
Clearing & Settlement	May 2010 YTD	May 2009 YTD	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	787,658	636,496	23.75%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	78,410	62,150	26.16%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	574	501	14.57%

# Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board
* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 May 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 - May 2010