Since the start of 2013, a total of 23,420,091 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland. This marks a year-on-year increase of 6.7%. There were 21,817,313 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a rise of 6.9%. The ETF segment also posted strong growth. 644,697 ETF transactions were conducted in total – 23.6% more than in the first eight months of last year.
Since the start of 2013, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 12.0% overall to CHF 692.4 billion. This equates to an average daily turnover of CHF 4.2 billion. Turnover figures in the equities including funds + ETPs (+18.4%) and ETFs (+25.9%) segments have been the main contributors to this increase. However, there has been a downswing in turnover in the bonds CHF (down by 11.3% to CHF 114.6 billion) and structured products and warrants (down by 3.8% to CHF 21.8 billion) segments.
Slight decline in August
August saw a total of 2,719,608 trades with a turnover of CHF 74.8 billion, a month-on-month decline of 3.4%. The number of trades was down by 5.7%. However, it should be remembered that trading only took place on 21 days in August, two fewer than in July.
The situation was similar in the equities including funds + ETPs segment: at 2,545,551 transactions, the previous month´s total was undershot by 5.7%, while turnover was down by 5.5% to CHF 50.8 billion. Trading turnover in ETFs fell by 19.4% to CHF 6.2 billion, and the number of trades was down by 13.6% to 64,308. In structured products and warrants, turnover was up by 9.2% to CHF 2.3 billion and the number of transactions also increased, by 8.8% to 70,527. Bond CHF trades fell by 14.1% to 38,026. However, turnover was up by 11.2% to CHF 15.4 billion.
5 new bond CHF issues (-83.9%) and 3,163 new structured products and warrants (-5.1%) were admitted to trading in August. In all, this means that 208 new CHF bonds (-10.0%) and 31,057 new structured products and warrants (-4.2%) have been listed since the start of the year.
Equity indices closed the month lower versus July 2013 on the whole: the blue chip SMI index closed at 7,746.0 points (-1.0% compared with the prior month, +13.5% versus end-2012), the SLI Swiss Leader Index® PR came in at 1,179.8 points (-1.4% month-on-month, +13.7% versus end-2012) and the broader- based SPI® stood at 7,353.9 points (-0.6% versus the previous month, +16.9% compared with end-2012).