- Trading turnover since the start of the year: CHF 665.0 billion (+7.7% versus the same period in 2013)
- Average trading turnover per day of CHF 4.6 billion
- Hudson River Trading Europe is a new participant on SIX Swiss Exchange
Since the start of 2014, trading turnover across all securities on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange has risen by 7.7% overall to CHF 665.0 billion. This equates to an average daily turnover of CHF 4.6 billion. Turnover figures in the equities including funds + ETPs (+11.2%) segment have been the main contributors to this increase. However, turnover in CHF bonds has fallen by 3.0% to CHF 96.2 billion, while it has decreased by 14.4% to CHF 16.7 billion in structured products and warrants.
Compared with the corresponding period last year, there has also been an increase in the number of trades conducted: a total of 22,238,054 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange in the year to date, a rise of 7.4%. There have been 20,918,395 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to an increase of 8.5%. In the CHF bonds segment, the number of transactions was almost unchanged at 302,769 (-0.03% versus the corresponding period last year, which saw 302,856 trades).
A total of 3,350,134 transactions were conducted in July 2014 (+13.1% month-on-month), with a turnover of CHF 89.9 billion (+ 0.9%).
In the equities including funds + ETPs segment, the prior month's total was exceeded by 13.4%, with 3,169,682 trades, while turnover was up by 4.1% to CHF 65.9 billion. Trading turnover in ETFs fell by 0.1% to CHF 6.7 billion, though the number of trades climbed by 4.6% to 73,472. Turnover in structured products and warrants jumped by 16.1% to CHF 2.0 billion. In addition, the volume of trades was up by 17.4% to 63,047. The number of CHF bond trades rose by 4.4% to 42,007, but turnover dropped by 13.9% to CHF 13.7 billion.
A total of 37 new CHF bond issues (-2.6% month-on-month) and 4,058 new structured products and warrants (+93.2%) were admitted to trading in July. In all, this means that 213 new CHF bonds (+4.9%) and 23,368 new structured products and warrants (-16.2%) have been listed since the start of the year.
SIX Swiss Exchange also welcomed Hudson River Trading Europe as a new trading participant.
The performance of the leading equity indices in July 2014 was as follows: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 8,410.3 points at the end of July (-1.7% month-on-month, +2.5% versus end-2013). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,273.9 points (-2.0%/+1.3%) and the broader-based SPI® at 8,329.7 points (-1.5%/+6.3%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was up versus June (+0.4%/+4.0% compared with end-2013) at 128.6 points.
