HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

- Securities Market

The average daily turnover for the first 10 months of 2008 was $77,453 million, a decrease of 6 per cent when compared with $82,015 million for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of CBBC for the first 10 months of 2008 was $3,848 million, an increase of 2,099 per cent when compared with $175 million the same period last year.

- Derivatives Market

The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first 10 months of 2008 was 440,320 contracts, an increase of 26 per cent when compared with the same period last year, when it was 349,032 contracts. In addition, the total turnover of futures and options for the first 10 months reached 89,384,940 contracts, surpassing the full year turnover of 87,985,686 contracts in 2007.
On 28 October 2008, the turnover of Hang Seng Index Futures and H-shares Index Futures reached a record highs of 224,461 and 219,689 contracts respectively.
On 29 October 2008, the total open interest for Mini Hang Seng Index Futures reached a record high of 10,673 contracts.
Gold Futures began trading on 20 October 2008.

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

	Oct 2008	Oct 2007	End 2007
No. of listed companies	1,259	1,220	1,241
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	9,521	23,070	20,698
No. of newly listed companies	2	10	84
No. of listed securities	6,028	5,562	6,092
No. of equity warrants	39	30	33
No. of derivatives warrants	3,684	4,013	4,483
No. of CBBC	836	96	131
No. of unit trusts	33	26	26
No. of debt securities	174	173	175

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Oct 2008	Sep 2008	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,296,735	1,419,970	-9%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	61,749	67,618	-9%
No. of trading days	21	21	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Oct 2008	Oct 2007	End 2007
No. of H shares	150	144	146
No. of Red chips Stocks	92	91	93
No. of NHMPE	211	161	200
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	55.1%	60.0%	58.2%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	70.2%	76.0%	69.3%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Oct 2008	% Change over 1 Month	% Change over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	17159.28	-22.6%	-55.0%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	364.53	-34.0%	-75.9%
Hang Seng Index	13968.67	-22.5%	-55.5%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	6611.15	-27.1%	-67.1%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	2962.71	-14.6%	-57.4%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Oct 2008	Sep 2008	% Change
Total Futures	240,944	214,807	12.2%
Hang Seng Index Futures	111,456	104,667	6.5%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	42,979	36,812	16.8%
H-shares Index Futures	82,729	69,754	18.6%
Mini H-shares Index Futures	1,930	1,508	28.0%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures	0	0	-
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	0	0	-
Stock Futures	1,729	1,995	-13.3%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	42	66	-36.4%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	1	5	-80.0%
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Gold Futures *	163	-	-
Total Options	271,647	306,739	-11.4%
Hang Seng Index Options	17,950	20,669	-13.2%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	983	961	2.3%
H-shares Index Options	7,106	9,698	-26.7%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	0	0	-
Stock Options	245,608	275,411	-10.8%
Total Futures and Options	512,591	521,546	-1.7%

* Trading in Gold Futures commenced on 20 Oct 2008

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Oct 2008	Sep 2008	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	698,930	575,962	21.35%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	68,410	63,417	7.87%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	983	681	44.35%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.79	99.50	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	73.27% 44.06%	74.53% 44.18%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Oct 2008	Sep 2008	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	208,443	189,365	10.1%
- Stock Futures	8,122	8,269	-1.8%
- Interest Rates Futures	2,447	2,301	6.3%
- Gold Futures	47	-	-
- Equity Index Options	244,794	174,198	40.5%
- Stock Options	5,288,788	4,675,934	13.1%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Oct 2008 YTD	Oct 2007 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	32	62	-48%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	77,453	82,015	-6%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	119,266	81,294	47%
Average no. of trades per trading day	575,839	599,364	-4%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	65,799	204,278	-68%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	185,967	436,875	-57%
Derivatives Market	Oct 2008 YTD	Oct 2007 YTD	% Change
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	182,489	126,162	44.6%
- Stock Futures	993	1,531	-35.1%
- Interest Rates Futures	101	128	-21.1%
- Gold Futures	163	-	-
- Equity Index Options	22,832	40,089	-43.0%
- Stock Options	233,896	181,122	29.1%
Clearing & Settlement	Oct 2008 YTD	Oct 2007 YTD	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	575,827	599,359	-3.93%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	64,199	64,414	-0.33%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	579	943	-38.60

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 October 2008

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 - October 2008