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Key Figures SIX Swiss Exchange And SIX Structured Products Exchange: November 2015

Date 01/12/2015

  • Trading turnover of CHF 1,273.3 billion (+21.3% versus the same period in 2014) since the start of the year
  • Average trading turnover per day of CHF 5.5 billion
  • Increases in equity and bond indices

Since the start of 2015, a total of 47,675,113 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange. This marks a year-on-year increase of 34.2%. The equities including funds + ETPs segment accounted for the most transactions, at 45,431,897. This represents a year-on-year increase of 35.7%.

Since the start of 2015, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 21.3% in total to CHF 1,273.3 billion. Turnover has therefore averaged CHF 5.5 billion per day. This increase is primarily attributable to turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs segment (+26.6%). Turnover in CHF bonds has increased by 4.9% to CHF 161.5 billion. Turnover in structured products and warrants has risen by 3.2% to CHF 25.5 billion.

November 2015 saw a total of 3,899,959 trades with a turnover of CHF 95.7 billion, which represents a month-on-month decline of 10.4% in terms of the number of transactions. Turnover was down by 5.9%. However, in comparison with November 2014, which saw turnover of CHF 89.9 billion, turnover was up by 6.5%.

The performance of the equities including funds + ETPs segment was as follows: there were 3,717,471 trades, a decrease of 11.0% on the previous month, with turnover down by 4.9% to CHF 76.5 billion.

Although the number of trades in ETFs rose by 5.9% to 84,295, trading turnover was down by 20.0% to CHF

5.6 billion. It was a similar story in structured products and warrants. There was an increase of 4.4% in the number of trades to 61,555, but turnover fell by 1.5% to CHF 1.4 billion. CHF bond trades were down by 7.9% to 35,494, with turnover falling by 5.8% to CHF 10.8 billion.

20 new CHF bond issues (+5.3%) and 3,169 new structured products and warrants (+7.3%) were admitted to trading in November. In all, 254 new CHF bonds (-24.9%) and 39,662 new structured products and warrants (+8.3%) have therefore been listed since the start of the year.

All the key equity indices trended higher in November 2015: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 8,993.1 points at the end of November (+0.6% month-on-month, +0.1% versus end-2014). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,357.4 points (+1.5%/+2.0%) and the broader-based SPI® at 9,232.9 points (+1.1%/+4.2%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was up versus October (+0.7%/+3.5% compared with end-2014) at 136.7 points.

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