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- Trading turnover since the beginning of the year: CHF 469.8 billion (-1.7% year-on-year)
- Number of trades since the beginning of 2017: 16,636,471 (-5.8% year-on-year)
- Average daily trading turnover of CHF 5.7 billion from the beginning of the year
SIX Swiss Exchange reported total trading turnover of CHF 469.8 billion from the beginning of the year. This represents a slight 1.7% decline year-on-year. Average daily trading turnover was therefore CHF 5.7 billion from the beginning of the year. Turnover was generated by 16,636,471 trades – a 5.8% decline year-on- year.
April figures were considerably lower than those reported in the previous month. However, April featured 18 trading days, i.e. five fewer days than March (23). April 2017 saw a total of 3,775,013 trades with a total turnover of CHF 98.7 billion, a month-on-month decline of 19.4%. Turnover was down by 30.8%. In April 2017, the highest daily trading turnover was recorded on 24 April, when market participants traded securities with a total value of CHF 6.9 billion. The stock with the highest turnover in April was Nestle N.
The performance of the equities including funds + ETPs segment was as follows: at 3,631,239, the number of trades was 19.0% below the previous month's level and turnover was down by 28.0% to CHF 79.3 billion. Trading turnover in ETFs declined by 36.9% to CHF 8.1 billion and the number of trades fell by 24.7% to 76,295. As far as structured products and warrants are concerned, turnover was down by 24.7% to CHF 1.1 billion, while the number of trades declined by 25.2% to 41,739. CHF bond trades were down by 36.6% to 23,995 and turnover was down by 46.4% to CHF 8.0 billion.
On 7 April, the shares of Galenica Santé AG were traded for the first time on SIX Swiss Exchange. The IPO was the biggest since the beginning of the year in Europe at the time.
23 new CHF bonds (-8.0%) and 1,956 new structured products and warrants (-38.7%) were admitted to trading in April. In all, this means that 90 new CHF bonds (+2.3%) and 10,860 new structured products and warrants (-17.4%) were listed from the beginning of the year.
The performance of the most important equity indices was as follows in April 2017: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 8,812.7 points at the end of April (+1.8% month-on-month, +7.2% versus end-2016). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® ended the month at 1,409.2 points (+2.4%/+8.6%), with the broader-based SPI® coming in at 9,976.1 points (+3.5%/+11.3%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index advanced +0.1% month-on-month (+0.2% against end-2016) to 136.5 points.
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