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- Trading turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs segment outstripped the figure for the whole of last year as early as the end of October
- Strong October: all segments posted higher trading turnover and a greater number of trades
- Cembra Money Bank (CMBN) now listed on SIX Swiss Exchange
Since the start of 2013, a total of 29,141,350 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland. This marks a year-on-year increase of 7.7%. There were 27,171,108 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a rise of 8.1%. There was also growth in the ETF segment, with a total of 785,658 trades. This represents an increase of 17.9% compared with the corresponding period last year.
Since the start of 2013, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 11.3% overall to CHF 846.5 billion. This equates to an average daily turnover of CHF 4.0 billion. Turnover figures in the equities including funds + ETPs (+18.0%) and ETFs (+18.8%) segments have been the main contributors to this increase. There has been a downswing in turnover in the bonds CHF and structured products and warrants segments. Bonds CHF saw turnover fall by 10.8% to CHF 139.3 billion, while turnover was down by 6.6% to CHF 25.8 billion in structured products and warrants.
October saw a total of 2,988,157 trades with a turnover of CHF 79.7 billion, a month-on-month increase of 7.1%. The number of trades was up by 9.3%.
With 2,788,331 transactions, the equities including funds + ETPs segment outstripped the previous month's figure by 8.7%, while turnover was up by 7.7% to CHF 58.8 billion. In ETFs, trading turnover increased by 8.5% to CHF 5.9 billion, with the number of trades up by 29.3% to 79,486. In structured products and warrants, turnover rose by 5.4% to CHF 2.1 billion. Furthermore, there was a rise of 16.6% in the number of trades to 75,957. Bond CHF trades were up by 8.0% to 43,215, with turnover climbing by 3.2% to CHF 12.5 billion.
A total of 34 new bond CHF issues (-5.6%) and 3,569 new structured products and warrants (-19.4%) were admitted to trading in October. In all, this means that 278 new bonds CHF (-8.3%) and 39,053 new structured products and warrants (-2.4%) have been listed since the start of the year. In addition, there was a new listing on SIX Swiss Exchange in the shape of Cembra Money Bank (CMBN).
Equity indices closed higher versus September 2013: the blue chip SMI® index closed the month at 8,234.3 points (+2.6% compared with the prior month, +20.7% versus end-2012), the SLI Swiss Leader Index® PR came in at 1,255.7 points (+2.7% month-on-month, +21.0% versus end-2012) and the broader-based SPI® stood at 7,829.0 points (+2.9% versus the previous month, +24.5% compared with end-2012).
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