- With more than PLN 22.2 billion of session trading, June closes the best six months in the history of the WSE Main Market
- Incremental session trading on the Main Market year to date up by 28.4% year on year
- Triple-digit growth rate of trading continues for another month to ensure a record-breaking quarter on NewConnect
- The highest quarterly trading in share futures and more than 0.5 million options traded in H1 2011
The Warsaw Stock Exchange publishes June turnover data for the markets operated by the WSE Group.
Shares [1]
Main Market
The value of session trading in June was PLN 22.2 billion, an increase of 39.6% year on year. The value of session trading in April – June 2011 totalled PLN 63.8 billion, the second highest quarterly value in history after that of Q1 2011, which was several dozen million PLN higher.
The value of session trading from January to June 2011 was PLN 127.7 billion, an increase of 28.4% year on year. As a result, the value of trading in H1 2011 was record-high and PLN 5.6 billion higher than the previous record reported in H1 2007.
Owing to transactions in large blocks of shares of several companies, the value of block trades in June exceeded PLN 5.3 billion, an increase of 191.8% year on year.
The WIG index gained 22.9% year on year and 1.95% year to date at the end of June 2011.
NewConnect
The value of session trading on NewConnect continued to grow very dynamically in June and in H1 2011. The value of session trading was PLN 202.2 million in June 2011, an increase of 243% year on year. The incremental value of session trading was over PLN 1.2 billion year to date, an increase of 77.5% year on year. The quarterly value of trading at PLN 677.6 million was record-high.
The NCIndex lost 0.4% year on year and 13.5% year to date at the end of June 2011.
Derivative instruments
Futures contracts: The volume of trading in index futures was 1.1 million contracts in June 2011 as compared to 1.2 million in June 2010. The WSE reported a record-high volume of trading in share futures per session at 5,141 instruments on 15 June. The monthly volume of trading in share futures was 57.6 thousand, an increase of 77% year on year, and the volume of trading in H1 2011 was 351.7 thousand instruments, an increase of 101.3%. Investor activity in June demonstrated dynamic growth of interest in share futures, which has prevailed for a long time. Record-high trading numbers were reported both in Q2 and H1 2011.
Options: The volume of trading in options was 89.7 thousand contracts, which represented the second highest monthly volume after March 2011. The volume was up by 84.3% year on year. The volume of trading in options in January-June 2011 was up by 49% year on year. The volume of trading in options exceeded 0.5 million instruments within six months (session and block trades) for the first time in the history of the market.
Structured products, investment certificates and ETF
ETF: The value of trading in ETFs was PLN 18.8 million in June 2011 and PLN 137.8 million year to date.
Structured products and investment certificates: The value of trading in investment certificates and structured products was PLN 17.6 million (structured products: PLN 10.2 million; investment certificates: PLN 7.3 million). Trading in structured products in January-June 2011 decreased by 3.3% and trading in certificates grew by 38.9% year on year.
Fixed-income instruments
Catalyst
The value of session trading on Catalyst was PLN 126.1 million in June 2011, an increase of 105% year on year. The value of trading was PLN 651.6 million in January-June 2011, as compared to PLN 665.2 million in January-June 2010. The value of bond issues (corporate, municipal and mortgage bonds) was PLN 30.9 billion at the end of June 2011, up by 54.9% year on year.
Treasury BondSpot Poland
The value of cash transactions in June 2011 grew by 178.1% year on year while the value of conditional transactions increased from PLN 5.6 billion to PLN 60.8 billion (up by 984%). The incremental value of cash transactions was PLN 135.9 billion in January-June 2011 (up by 133.3% year on year) and the value of conditional transactions was PLN 411.6 billion (up by 642.9%). With the triple-digit growth rate of trading on Treasury BondSpot Poland over the past months, the value of both cash and conditional transactions was record-high in H1 2011.
The WSE held 21 trading sessions in June 2011, the same as in June 2010.
[1] - transactions in shares, allotment certificates and subscription rights