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- Month-on-month increase in trading activity: transactions up 10%, 8.3% increase in trading turnover
- Trading turnover in the first two months: CHF 234.9 billion.
- Average trading turnover per day in the first two months: CHF 5.7 billion
In total, 5,100,692 transactions were concluded on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange in February 2016, a month-on-month increase of 10%. Turnover advanced 8.3% to CHF 122.1 billion.
Activity in the equities including funds + ETPS segment was higher than average, with transactions rising 10.5% month-on-month to 4,901,224, while turnover climbed 12.3% to CHF 99.1 billion. The number of CHF bond transactions rose by 8.8%, but had little impact on turnover, which remained virtually unchanged against the previous month at CHF 12.0 billion (-0.1%). Trading turnover in the ETF segment fell 21.8% to CHF 7.6 billion, while the number of transactions declined 3.4% to 87,183. In structured products and warrants, turnover was down 2.8% at CHF 1.6 billion, although the number of transactions rose by 0.3% to 74,419.
A total of 9,736,556 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange since the start of 2016. This represents a 4.5% decline year-on-year, largely due to the record- high transaction volumes in January 2015. The same effect was apparent in trading turnover, down 21.7% year-on-year at CHF 234.9 billion. Turnover has therefore averaged CHF 5.7 billion per day.
In February 2016, 24 new CHF bond issues (+84.6%) and 3,776 new structured products and warrants (+5.3%) were admitted to trading. In all, 37 new CHF bonds (-15.9%) and 7,362 new structured products and warrants (-25.4%) have been listed since the start of the year.
Performance of the leading equity indices in February 2016: the blue chip SMI® index closed at 7,843.6 points at the end of February (-5.7% month-on-month; -11.1% against end-2015). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,194.4 points (-4.4%; -10.3%) and the broader-based SPI® at 8,249.4 points (-4.2%; - 9.3%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index advanced 1.2% month-on-month (+3.0% against end-2015) to 138.4 points.
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