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Since the start of 2013, a total of 20,700,401 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland. This marks a year-on-year increase of 6.0%. There were 19,271,707 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a rise of 6.1%. The ETF segment is also performing strongly, with a total of 580,385 trades. This marks a year-on- year increase of 26.8%.
Since the start of 2013, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 12.4% in total to CHF 617.3 billion. Turnover has therefore averaged CHF 4.3 billion per day. This increase was primarily attributable to turnover in equities including funds + ETPs (+17.9%), ETFs (+32.6%) and structured products and warrants (+2.4%). Trading was down in the CHF bonds segment, which saw turnover drop by 11.8% to CHF 99.2 billion.
July saw a total of 2,883,010 trades with a turnover of CHF 77.3 billion, a decline of 17.5%. The number of trades was down by 6.7%. The situation was similar in the equities including funds + ETPs segment: at 2,698,196 transactions, the previous month´s total was undershot by 6.2%, while turnover was down by 18.6% to CHF 53.7 billion. Trading turnover in ETFs fell by 20.3% to CHF 7.6 billion, and the number of trades was down by 15.7% to 74,465. In structured products and warrants, turnover dropped by 34.4% to CHF 2.1 billion and the number of transactions also decreased, by 12.7% to 64,827. CHF bond trades fell by 9.3% to 44,233, with turnover dropping by 6.9% to CHF 13.8 billion.
A total of 31 new CHF bond issues (-16.2%) and 3,332 new structured products and warrants (-24.1%) were admitted to trading in July. In all, this means that 203 new CHF bonds (-6.9%) and 27,894 new structured products and warrants (-3.9%) have been listed since the start of the year.
All the main equity indices closed the month higher versus June 2013: the blue chip SMI index closed at 7,820.4 points (+1.8% compared with the prior month, +14.6% versus end-2012), the SLI Swiss Leader Index® PR came in at 1,196.7 points (+3.4% month-on-month, +15.4% versus end-2012) and the broader- based SPI® stood at 7,398.6 points (+2.1% versus the previous month, +17.6% compared with end-2012).
