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- Trading turnover of CHF 741.2 billion (+7.0% versus the same period in 2013) since the start of the year
- Average trading turnover per day since the start of the year of CHF 4.5 billion
Since the start of 2014, a total of 25,090,618 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange. This marks a year-on-year increase of 7.1%. There were 23,614,302 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a rise of 8.2%. There were 338,287 (-0.8%) deals in the CHF bonds segment.
Since the start of 2014, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 7.0% to CHF 741.2 billion. This equates to an average daily turnover of CHF 4.5 billion. Turnover figures in the equities including funds + ETPs (+11.1%) segment have been the main contributors to this increase. However, turnover in CHF bonds has fallen by 6.2% to CHF 107.5 billion, while it has decreased by 15.0% to CHF 18.5 billion in structured products and warrants.
August 2014 saw a total of 2,852,520 trades with a turnover of CHF 76.1 billion, a month-on-month decline of 14.9%. Turnover was down by 15.4%. This is primarily due to the fact that August had three fewer trading days than the prior month (23).
In the equities including funds + ETPs segment, at 2,695,907 the number of deals was down by 14.9% on the prior month's level, and turnover was down by 15.1% to CHF 56.0 billion. Among ETFs, trading turnover fell by 11.3% to CHF 6.0 billion and the number of trades was down by 13.1% to 63,895. In structured products and warrants, at CHF 1.8 billion turnover was 10.6% down on July's level. In addition, there were 12.3% fewer transactions, at 55,289. CHF bond trades were down by 15.5% to 35,504, with turnover falling by 17.9% to CHF 11.2 billion.
13 new CHF bond issues (-64.9%) and 2,823 new structured products and warrants (-30.4%) were admitted to trading in August. In all, 226 new CHF bonds (+8.7%) and 26,191 new structured products and warrants (-15.7%) have therefore been listed since the start of the year.
The performance of the most important equity indices was as follows in August 2014: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 8,659.0 points at the end of August (+3.0% month-on-month, +5.6% versus end-2013). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,305.5 points (+2.5%/+3.8%) and the broader-based SPI® at 8,566.3 points (+2.8%/+9.3%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was up versus July (+0.9%/+4.9% compared with end-2013) at 129.8 points.
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