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- Trading turnover of CHF 858.5 billion (-10.9% versus the same period in the previous year of 2015)
- 32,095,451 trades (-7.6% versus the same period in the previous year of 2015)
- Average trading turnover per day: CHF 5.1 billion
A total of 32,095,451 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange since the start of 2016. This marks a year-on-year decrease of 7.6%. There have been 30,724,164 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a decline of 7.0%. 257,143 trades (-21.7%) have been conducted in the CHF bonds segment.
Since the start of 2016, trading turnover across all securities has fallen by 10.9% in total to CHF 858.5 billion. Turnover has therefore averaged CHF 5.1 billion per day. This decrease is primarily attributable to declining turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs segment (-8.0%). Turnover in CHF bonds has fallen by 28.5% to CHF 89.7 billion, while it has decreased by 45.5% to CHF 11.6 billion in structured products and warrants.
August 2016 saw a total of 3,188,768 trades with a turnover of CHF 79.6 billion, a month-on-month decline of 8.7%. Turnover was down by 13.2%.
The performance of the equities including funds + ETPs segment was as follows: at 3,048,502, the number of trades was down 8.5% on the prior month. Accordingly, turnover was down by 8.5% to CHF 61.7 billion. Trading turnover in ETFs fell by 35.1% to CHF 7.0 billion, with the number of trades declining by 13.7% to 67,361. Turnover in structured products and warrants was up by 17.7% to CHF 1.6 billion. However, there were 9.2% fewer trades (45,447). CHF bond trades were down by 10.7% to 25,459, with turnover falling by 28.8% to CHF 7.2 billion.
12 new CHF bond issues (-50.0%) and 2,745 new structured products and warrants (-11.7%) were admitted to trading in August. In all, this means that 173 new CHF bonds (-10.8%) and 24,387 new structured products and warrants (-20.9%) have been listed since the start of the year.
The performance of the most important equity indices was as follows in August 2016: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 8,202.1 points at the end of August (+0.9% month-on-month, -7.0% versus end-2015). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,244.8 points (+3.0%/-6.5%) and the broader-based SPI® at 8,915.8 points (+1.0%/-2.0%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was down versus July (-0.3%/+3.5% compared to end-2015) at 139.2 points.
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