- Trading turnover in the first two months of 2015: CHF 300.1 billion (+43.4% versus the same period a year earlier)
- Average trading turnover per day since the start of the year: CHF 7.5 billion (+47.0%)
- Sunrise Communications Group now listed on SIX Swiss Exchange
Since the beginning of 2015, turnover across all securities on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange has climbed by a total of 43.4% compared with the year before to CHF 300.1 billion. Turnover has therefore averaged CHF 7.5 billion per day. This increase is primarily attributable to turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs (+43.9%) segment. Turnover in CHF bonds even increased by 98.1% to CHF 51.6 billion. In contrast, turnover in structured products and warrants fell by 27.5% to CHF 4.7 billion.
The number of trades rose by 52.2% to 10,200,146. There have been 9,698,505 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a rise of 54.3%. There were 107,581 (+22.6%) trades in the CHF bonds segment.
January was characterized by an extremely high level of trading activity. Although February also saw an above-average level of trading compared to the prior year, the figures of the previous month could not be matched. In February, the average trading turnover per day fell by 34.8% to CHF 5.9 billion (prior year: CHF 4.8 billion). A total of 3,984,665 trades (-35.9%) were conducted over the month, generating turnover of CHF 118.4 billion (-34.8%). With 3,768,334 trades, the equities including funds + ETPs segment underperformed the previous month's total by 36.5%, with turnover down by 35.5% to CHF 86.0 billion.
Trading turnover in ETFs fell by 47.5% to CHF 7.5 billion, with the number of trades declining by 29.3% to 90,785. Turnover in structured products and warrants fell by 33.7% to CHF 1.9 billion. In addition, there were 19.6% fewer trades (76,283). CHF bond trades were down by 20.9% to 47,506, with turnover falling by 29.1% to CHF 21.4 billion.
33 new CHF bond issues (+200.0%) and 3,947 new structured products and warrants (-33.4%) were admitted to trading in February. In all, this means that 44 new CHF bonds (-17.0%) and 9,871 new structured products and warrants (+39.7%) have been listed since the start of the year.
The performance of the most important equity indices was as follows in February 2015: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 9,014.5 points at the end of April (+7.5% month-on-month, +0.3% versus end-2014). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,330.4 points (+8.8%/0.0%) and the broader-based SPI® at 8,921.8 points (+8.0%/+0.7%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was down versus January (-0.4%/+1.6% compared with end-2014) at 134.2 points.
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