HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

Securities Market

The average daily turnover for September 2007 reached a record high of $109,639 million, exceeding $100 billion for the first time.
On 24 September 2007, the derivative warrants turnover reached a record high of $27,291 million.
On 28 September 2007, the securities market turnover reached a record high of $149,210 million.
On 28 September 2007, the securities market capitalisation reached an all-time closing high of $20,055 billion, exceeding $20 trillion for the first time.
On 28 September 2007, the Hang Seng Index reached a record closing high of 27142.47.
On 28 September 2007, the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (H-shares Index) reached a record closing high of 17017.94.

Derivatives Market

On 25 September 2007 , the daily turnover for Hang Seng Index Futures reached a record high of 201,717 contracts.
On 25 September 2007 , the total open interest for all futures and options reached a record high of 8,140,379 contracts.

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

	Sep 2007	Sep 2006	End 2006
No. of listed companies	1,210	1,152	1,173
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	20,055	10,604	13,338
No. of newly listed companies	5	6	62
No. of listed securities	4,851	3,010	3,383
No. of equity warrants	30	28	28
No. of derivatives warrants	3,344	1,606	1,959
No. of CBBC	62	35	24
No. of unit trusts	26	13	15
No. of debt securities	175	173	180

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Sep 2007	Aug 2007	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	2,083,138	2,168,466	-4%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	109,639	94,281	16%
No. of trading days	19	23	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Sep 2007	Sep 2006	End 2006
No. of H shares	143	133	141
No. of Red chips Stocks	90	90	90
No. of NHMPE	155	129	136
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	58.1%	44.0%	50.3%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	72.4%	59.1%	60.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Sep 2007	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge YTD
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	32845.27	14.1%	60.9%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	1514.52	0.5%	37.4%
Hang Seng Index	27142.47	13.2%	54.7%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	17017.94	18.7%	139.8%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	5800.76	19.4%	118.9%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Sep 2007	Aug 2007	% Change
Total Futures	14 3 , 3 86	179, 3 14	-20.0%
Hang Seng Index Futures	72,807	90,2 3 7	-19. 3 %
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	18,955	21,929	-1 3 .6%
H-shares Index Futures	50,284	65, 3 89	-2 3 .1%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures¹	1	3	-66.7%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	4	7	-42.9%
Stock Futures	1,258	1,6 3 8	-2 3 .2%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	76	109	- 3 0. 3 %
1-Month HIBOR Futures	1	2	-50.0%
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	277,416	3 12,792	-11. 3 %
Hang Seng Index Options	26,6 3 4	44,144	- 3 9.7%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	167	3 1 3	-46.6%
H-shares Index Options	10,0 3 4	1 3 ,190	-2 3 .9%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	1	16	-9 3 .8%
Stock Options	240,579	255,128	-5.7%
Total Futures and Options	420,801	492,105	-14.5%

¹Trading in Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures commenced on 16 Apr 2007 .

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Sep 2007	Aug 2007	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	703,168	688,758	2.09%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	75,191	72,123	4.25%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	987	1,017	-2.95%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.70	99.52	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	69.00% 45.96%	67.77% 44.17%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Sep 2007	Aug 2007	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	218,652	22 3 ,804	-2. 3 %
- Stock Futures	8,596	10,5 3 4	-18.4%
- Interest Rates Futures	5,977	10,45 3	-42.8%
- Equity Index Options	449,440	529,508	-15.1%
- Stock Options	5,4 3 5,15 3	5,664,446	-4.0%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Sep 2007 YTD	Sep 2006 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	52	37	41%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	72,423	30,379	138%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	76,061	35,518	114%
Average no. of trades per trading day	560,734	231,106	143%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	158,845	138,884	14%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	313,760	263,226	19%
Derivatives Market	Sep 2007 YTD	Sep 2006 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	120,6 3 0	77,504	55.6%
- Stock Futures	1,549	3 42	3 52.9%
- Interest Rates Futures	1 3 1	62	111. 3 %
- Equity Index Options	41, 3 55	19,017	117.5%
- Stock Options	168, 3 92	64,608	160.6%
Clearing & Settlement	Sep 2007 YTD	Sep 2006 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	560,730	231,102	142.63%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	61,077	34,195	78.61%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	910	534	70.41%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 30 September 2007

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 - September 2007