- Trading turnover of CHF 855.9 billion (+28.7% versus the same period in the previous year of 2014)
- Average trading turnover per day of CHF 5.9 billion
- Cassiopea SpA now listed on SIX Swiss Exchange
Since the start of 2015, a total of 30,496,697 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange. This marks a year-on-year increase of 37.1%. There have been 28,998,112 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a rise of 38.6%. 296,749 trades (-2.0%) have been conducted in the CHF bonds segment.
Since the start of 2015, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 28.7% in total to CHF 855.9 billion. Turnover has therefore averaged CHF 5.9 billion per day. This increase is primarily attributable to turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs segment (+33.1%). Turnover in CHF bonds has increased by 19.9% to CHF 115.4 billion. Turnover in structured products and warrants has increased by 16.2% to CHF 19.4 billion.
A total of 4,133,975 trades were conducted in July 2015, generating turnover of CHF 103.1 billion, a month- on-month decline of 2.9%. Turnover was down by 12.4%. However, in a comparison with July 2014, which saw turnover of CHF 90.0 billion, the corresponding figure generated in July 2015 of CHF 103.1 billion looks good (+14.6%).
The performance of the equities including funds + ETPs segment was as follows: there were 3,940,346 trades, a decrease of 3.1% on the previous month, with turnover down by 8.2% to CHF 83.1 billion. Trading turnover in ETFs rose by 9.0% to CHF 7.3 billion, with the number of trades increasing by 11.0% to 88,093. Turnover in structured products and warrants decreased by 66.1% month-on-month to CHF 2.0 billion. In addition, there were 0.5% fewer trades (71,523). CHF bond trades were down by 17.1% to 32,867, with turnover falling by 28.8% to CHF 9.7 billion.
A total of 13 new CHF bond issues (-62.9%) and 3,792 new structured products and warrants (+5.4%) were admitted to trading in July. In all, this means that 180 new CHF bonds (-15.5%) and 27,314 new structured products and warrants (+16.9%) have been listed since the start of the year.
Cassiopea SpA marked the third IPO this year on SIX Swiss Exchange.
The performance of the leading equity indices in July 2015 was as follows: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 9,428.2 points at the end of July (+7.4% month-on-month, +5.0% versus end-2014). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,407.9 points (+6.7%/+5.8%) and the broader-based SPI® at 9,559.2 points (+7.2%/+7.9%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was up versus June (+0.6%/+1.7% compared with end-2014) at 134.4 points.
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