Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - October 2012

Date 06/11/2012

Highlights

 

- Securities Market

 

  • The average daily turnover for the first 10 months of 2012 was $53,073 million, a decrease of 27 per cent when compared with $73,063 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of RQFII A-share ETFs for October 2012 was $148 million, an increase of 124 per cent when compared with $66 million for September 2012.
  • The first RMB-traded equity security outside Mainland China commenced trading in Hong Kong on 29 October 2012, with an average daily turnover of RMB 19 million.
  • There were 92 newly listed debt securities in the first 10 months of 2012, a record high.

 

- Derivatives Market

 

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first 10 months of 2012 was 485,146 contracts, a decrease of 18 per cent when compared with 589,631 contracts for the same period last year.
  • In October 2012, the month’s average daily turnover of H-shares Index Options was greater than that of Hang Seng Index Options for the first time.
  • On 29 October 2012, the open interest of H-shares Index Options, H-shares Index Futures and HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures reached record highs of 765,935, 207,979 and 77,555 contracts respectively.

 

 

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

 

Oct 2012

Oct 2011

End 2011

No. of listed companies

1,536

1,472

1,496

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

20,408

18,443

17,537

No. of newly listed companies *

4

6

101

No. of listed securities

6,831

6,911

6,723

No. of equity warrants

13

17

15

No. of derivatives warrants

3,731

4,441

4,027

No. of CBBC

1,182

700

901

No. of unit trusts

108

87

88

No. of debt securities

257

190

192

* Includes the number of transfer of listings from GEM to Main Board

 

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Oct 2012

Sep 2012

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,048,590

1,047,442

0%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

52,429

52,372

0%

No. of trading days

20

20

-


* Turnover value for securities traded in non-Hong Kong dollar currency have been included since 29 November 2010

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

Oct 2012
($Mil)

Sep 2012
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

770,103.12
(73.4%)

779,143.92
(74.4%)

-1.2%

Derivative warrants

130,163.41
(12.4%)

121,232.21
(11.6%)

7.4%

CBBC

98,020.81
(9.3%)

103,355.49
(9.9%)

-5.2%

Debt securities

131.22
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

156.20
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

-16.0%

( ) % of market total
Turnover value for securities traded in non-Hong Kong dollar currency have been included since 29 November 2010

 

ATS Transactions

The total turnover of automated trading services’ (ATS) transactions for October 2012 was $22,582 million (2.2 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Oct 2012

Oct 2011

End 2011

No. of H shares

172

165

168

No. of Red chips Stocks

108

103

107

No. of Mainland private enterprises

432*

353

365

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

56.9%

55.1%

55.5%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

70.4%

67.0%

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

 

Oct 2012

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

26009.56

4.3%

8.8%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

346.93

-0.4%

-28.4%

Hang Seng Index

21641.82

3.9%

9.0%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

10582.05

7.6%

0.7%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4199.91

2.9%

9.3%

 

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

 

Derivatives Market Turnover

 

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Oct 2012

Sep 2012

% Change

Total Futures

186,589

187,277

-0.4%

Hang Seng Index Futures

76,509

80,939

-5.5%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

29,372

31,950

-8.1%

H-shares Index Futures

71,944

66,357

8.4%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

5,825

5,405

7.8%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

0

188

-100.0%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

476

1,110

-57.1%

HSI Volatility Index Futures 1

10

4

150.0%

IBOVESPA Futures 2

0

0

-

MICEX Index Futures 3

0

0

-

Sensex Index Futures 4

0

0

-

FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures 5

0

0

-

Stock Futures

2,226

1,216

83.1%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

1-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

USD/CNH Futures 6

228

217

5.1%

Gold Futures

0

0

-

Total Options

319,821

300,182

6.5%

Hang Seng Index Options

31,044

39,746

-21.9%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

5,656

5,225

8.2%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

244

10

2340.0%

H-shares Index Options

32,232

30,749

4.8%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

23

8

187.5%

Stock Options

250,621

224,444

11.7%

Total Futures and Options

506,410

487,459

3.9%

 

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
6 Trading in USD/CNH Futures commenced on 17 Sep 2012

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Oct 2012

Sep 2012

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

787,661

760,470

3.58%

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

73,722

70,681

4.30%

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

367

362

1.38%

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

99.90

99.90

N/A

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


70.08%
51.19%


69.98%
50.71%


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Oct 2012

Sep 2012

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

401,865

357,089

12.5%

– Stock Futures

19,029

10,353

83.8%

– Interest Rates Futures

5

5

0.0%

– RMB Currency Futures

1,956

1,076

81.8%

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– Equity Index Options

1,091,156

988,510

10.4%

– Stock Options

5,444,148

4,658,740

16.9%

 

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Oct 2012
YTD

Oct 2011
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

53

75

-29%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

53,073

73,063

-27%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

139,235

163,406

-15%

Average no. of trades per trading day

767,999

894,416

-14%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

48,876

208,853

-77%

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

205,870

385,367

-47%

Derivatives Market

Oct 2012
YTD

Oct 2011
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

189,234

207,143

-8.6%

– Stock Futures

1,228

1,933

-36.5%

– Interest Rates Futures

1

3

-66.7%

– RMB Currency Futures

225

-

-

– Gold Futures

-

18

-

– Equity Index Options

67,266

65,231

3.1%

– Stock Options

227,385

315,305

-27.9%

Clearing & Settlement

Oct 2012
YTD

Oct 2011
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

767,591

893,763

-14.12%

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

72,214

85,933

-15.96%

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

334

506

-33.99%

 

 

# 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 October 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

222,384

2012/09/25

207,979

2012/10/29

Hang Seng Index Options

116,835

2011/08/05

560,087

2012/06/27

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

86,812

2011/08/09

21,682

2011/06/17

H-shares Index Options

67,677

2012/09/14

765,935

2012/10/29

Stock Futures

27,966

2007/03/28

26,482

2011/08/25

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

20,802

2012/05/24

77,555

2012/10/29

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