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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - May 2012

Date 06/06/2012

Highlights

Securities Market 

  • The average daily turnover for the first five months of 2012 was $59,067 million, a decrease of 21 per cent when compared with $74,395 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first five months of 2012 was $7,114 million, an increase of 26 per cent when compared with $5,657 million for the same period last year.

Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for May 2012 was 561,543 contracts, an increase of 16 per cent when compared with 486,141 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first five months of 2012 was 501,899 contracts, a decrease of 5 per cent when compared with 528,761 contracts for the same period last year.
  • H-shares Index Options, Mini Hang Seng Index Options and HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures reached record high turnover of 47,645 contracts (17 May), 13,917 contracts (18 May) and 20,802 contracts (24 May) respectively.
  • Hang Seng Index Options, H-shares Index Options, Mini Hang Seng Index Options and HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures reached a record high of open interest of 528,940 contracts (29 May), 519, 857 contracts (29 May), 32,651 contracts (May 29) and 59,348 contracts (31 May) respectively. 

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

 

May 2012

May 2011

End 2011

No. of listed companies

1,518

1,437

1,496

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

18,007

21,910

17,537

No. of newly listed companies *

2

10

101

No. of listed securities

6,947

7,821

6,723

No. of equity warrants

17

22

15

No. of derivatives warrants

4,142

5,306

4,027

No. of CBBC

938

791

901

No. of unit trusts

103

87

88

No. of debt securities

225

174

192

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

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

May 2012

Apr 2012

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,205,831

904,131

33%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

54,810

50,230

9%

No. of trading days

22

18

-

* 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) 

May 2012
($Mil)

Apr 2012
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

857,018.56
(71.1%)

655,679.88
(72.5%)

30.7%

Derivative warrants

154,285.42
(12.8%)

107,810.21
(11.9%)

43.1%

CBBC

147,360.74
(12.2%)

106,795.29
(11.8%)

38.0%

Debt securities

51.50
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

37.23
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

38.3%

( ) % 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

May 2012

May 2011

End 2011

No. of H shares

168

163

168

No. of Red chips Stocks

107

103

107

No. of Mainland private enterprises

422*

338

365

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

58.7%

56.6%

55.5%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

70.9%

66.4%

66.0%

* Revised methodology for classification of listed companies took effect from 1 January 2012 (Mainland private enterprises were classified as Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises, or NHMPE before revision).

 

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

May 2012

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

22345.92

-12.0%

-20.7%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

396.89

-8.5%

-46.7%

Hang Seng Index

18629.52

-11.7%

-21.3%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

9686.03

-12.6%

-27.0%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

3746.46

-9.3%

-13.5%

 

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

 

Derivatives Market Turnover

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

May 2012

Apr 2012

% Change

Total Futures

215,803

190,457

13.3%

Hang Seng Index Futures

96,031

83,298

15.3%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

40,549

34,230

18.5%

H-shares Index Futures

68,783

64,227

7.1%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

7,808

7,180

8.7%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

151

56

169.6%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

1,358

486

179.4%

HSI Volatility Index Futures 1

16

11

45.5%

IBOVESPA Futures 2

0

0

-

MICEX Index Futures 3

0

0

-

Sensex Index Futures 4

3

3

0.0%

FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures 5

0

0

-

Stock Futures

1,103

965

14.3%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

0

3

-100.0%

1-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

Gold Futures

0

0

-

Total Options

345,741

266,820

29.6%

Hang Seng Index Options

48,889

36,825

32.8%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

7,418

4,096

81.1%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

0

194

-100.0%

H-shares Index Options

30,133

24,592

22.5%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

106

33

221.2%

Stock Options

259,195

201,080

28.9%

Total Futures and Options

561,543

457,278

22.8%

1 Trading in HSI Volatility Index Futures commenced on 20 Feb 2012
2 Trading in IBOVESPA Futures commenced on 30 Mar 2012
3 Trading in MICEX Index Futures commenced on 30 Mar 2012
4 Trading in Sensex Index Futures commenced on 30 Mar 2012
5 Trading in FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures commenced on 30 Mar 2012

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

May 2012

Apr 2012

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

789,460

726,146

8.72%

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

71,871

72,121

-0.35%

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

367

319

15.05%

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

99.89

99.92

N/A

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


70.17%
50.68%


70.14%
50.41%


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

May 2012

Apr 2012

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

324,546

283,289

14.6%

– Stock Futures

16,786

15,241

10.1%

– Interest Rates Futures

120

120

0.0%

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– Equity Index Options

890,000

704,957

26.2%

– Stock Options

6,389,341

5,461,734

17.0%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

May 2012
YTD

May 2011
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

27

31

-13%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

59,067

74,395

-21%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

151,377

159,308

-5%

Average no. of trades per trading day

831,373

866,640

-4%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

25,718

123,278

-79%

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

113,685

223,853

-49%

Derivatives Market

May 2012
YTD

May 2011
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

197,478

184,620

7.0%

– Stock Futures

1,193

1,719

-30.6%

– Interest Rates Futures

1

3

-66.7%

– Gold Futures

-

22

-

– Equity Index Options

66,920

59,940

11.6%

– Stock Options

236,306

282,457

-16.3%

Clearing & Settlement

May 2012
YTD

May 2011
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

831,077

866,170

-4.05%

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

76,748

87,156

-11.94%

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

349

525

-33.52%

 

# 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 May 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

528,940

2012/05/29 

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures 

86,812

2011/08/09

21,682

2011/06/17 

H-shares Index Options 

47,645

2012/05/17

519,857

2012/05/29 

Stock Futures 

27,966

2007/03/28

26,482

2011/08/25 

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

20,802

2012/05/24

59,348

2012/05/31 

Mini H-shares Index Futures 

19,556

2011/08/09

6,684

2012/04/24 

Mini Hang Seng Index Options 

13,917

2012/05/18

32,651

2012/05/29