SGX Reports Market Statistics For February 2019

• Securities daily average value rises to six-month high, with higher trading activity in IT and real estate sectors
• All-time record for Derivatives volume with 1.11 million lots daily

Securities

• Total Securities market turnover value was at S$19.1 billion, down 12% month-on-month (m-o-m) and down 42% year-on-year (y-o-y), over 18 trading days. There were 22 trading days in January 2019 and 19 in February 2018.
• Securities daily average value (SDAV) was S$1.06 billion, up 8% m-o-m and down 39% y-o-y.
• Market turnover value of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) was S$103 million, down 52% m-o-m and down 70% y-o-y.
• Market turnover value of structured warrants and Daily Leveraged Certificates (DLCs) was S$892 million, down 38% m-o-m and down 57% y-o-y.
• There was 1 Catalist listing during the month.
• There were 100 new bond listings, raising S$42.87 billion.
• Total market capitalisation value of 740 listed companies stood at S$970.84 billion as of end-February 2019.

Derivatives

• Total Derivatives volume was 18.2 million, down 2% month-on-month (m-o-m) and up 1% year-on-year (y-o-y).
• Equity Index Futures volume was 14.19 million, up 3% m-o-m and down 3% y-o-y.
• FTSE China A50 Index Futures volume was 8.62 million, up 15% m-o-m and up 21% y-o-y.
• SGX Nifty 50 Index Futures volume was 1.59 million, down 11% m-o-m and down 27% y-o-y.
• Nikkei 225 Index Futures volume was 1.43 million, down 12% m-o-m and down 39% y-o-y.
• MSCI Taiwan Index Futures volume was 1.41 million, down 22% m-o-m and down 21% y-o-y.
• MSCI Singapore Index Futures volume was 742,710, down 8% m-o-m and down 23% y-o-y.
• Total FX Futures volume was 1.6 million, down 14% m-o-m and up 37% y-o-y.
• SGX INR/USD Futures volume was 1 million, down 11% m-o-m and up 9% y-o-y.
• SGX USD/CNH Futures volume was 565,267, down 23% m-o-m and up 133% y-o-y.

Commodities

• SGX Commodities Derivatives volume was 1.44 million, down 30% month-on-month (m-o-m) and up 32% year-on-year (y-o-y).
• Iron Ore Derivatives volume was 1.18 million, down 33% m-o-m and up 26% y-o-y.
• Forward Freight Derivatives volume was 96,310, up 14% m-o-m and up 128% y-o-y.
• Volume of SICOM Rubber Futures, the world’s price benchmark for physical rubber, was 153,171, down 15% m-o-m and up 40% y-o-y.

The full report can be found here.