HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

Securities Market

Average daily turnover up to April 2008 was $95,592 million, an increase of 79 per cent when compared with the same period last year of $53,453 million.
Average daily turnover of derivative warrants up to April 2008 was $25,155 million, an increase of 138 per cent when compared with the same period last year of $10,554 million.
Average daily turnover of CBBC in April 2008 reached a record high of $1,829 million.

Derivatives Market

Average daily of futures and options up to April 2008 was traded 449,394 contracts, an increase of 69 per cent when compared with the same period last year of 266,445 contracts.
Average daily turnover of Mini H-shares Index futures was 1,266 contracts in April 2008, their first full month of trading.

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Listed Securities (Main Board and GEM)
Month-end figures

	Apr 2008	Apr 2007	End 2007
No. of listed companies	1,244	1,186	1,241
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	18,860	14,247	20,698
No. of newly listed companies	1	6	84
No. of listed securities	6,553	3,941	6,092
No. of equity warrants	39	31	33
No. of derivatives warrants	4,808	2,480	4,483
No. of CBBC	260	39	131
No. of unit trusts	26	22	26
No. of debt securities	173	179	175

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Apr 2008	Mar 2008	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,820,521	1,699,723	7%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	86,691	89,459	-3%
No. of trading days	21	19	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

Mainland Enterprises (Main Board and GEM)
Month-end figures

	Apr 2008	Apr 2007	End 2007
No. of H shares	148	143	146
No. of Red chips Stocks	93	91	93
No. of NHMPE	202	140	200
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	58.6%	50.3%	58.2%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	74.2%	64.2%	69.3%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Apr 2008	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	31200.56	12.3%	29.7%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	884.08	4.5%	-37.2%
Hang Seng Index	25755.35	12.7%	26.8%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	14230.25	17.8%	41.8%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	5792.79	13.9%	67.8%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Apr 2008	Mar 2008	% Change
Total Futures	157,407	184,719	-14.8%
Hang Seng Index Futures	75,961	89,67 3	-15. 3 %
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	26,57 3	3 0,788	-1 3 .7%
H-shares Index Futures	52,697	6 3 ,224	-16.7%
Mini H-shares Index Futures	1,266	1,204	5.1%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures	0	0	-
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	0	0	-
Stock Futures	78 3	8 3 9	-6.7%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	122	121	0.8%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	4	10	-60.0%
3 -Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	227,788	3 3 5,011	- 3 2.0%
Hang Seng Index Options	10,707	14,826	-27.8%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	411	421	-2.4%
H-shares Index Options	4,109	7,81 3	-47.4%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	0	5	-100.0%
Stock Options	212,562	3 11,946	- 3 1.9%
Total Futures and Options	3 85,194	519,7 3 0	-25.9%

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Apr 2008	Mar 2008	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	588,089	619,347	-5.05%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	64,074	66,289	-3.34%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	534	592	-9.80%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.86	99.85	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	76.66% 45.30%	77.13% 44.86%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Apr 2008	Mar 2008	% Chan ge
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	207,472	224,8 3 8	-7.7%
- Stock Futures	6,7 3 4	5,44 3	2 3 .7%
- Interest Rates Futures	2,221	2,060	7.8%
- Equity Index Options	175,76 3	194,619	-9.7%
- Stock Options	5,997, 3 17	5,652,274	6.1%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Apr 2008 YTD	Apr 2007 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	11	19	-42%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	95,592	53,453	79%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	148,343	64,664	129%
Average no. of trades per trading day	629,581	442,550	42%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	33,165	78,558	-58%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	75,839	122,035	-38%
Derivatives Market	Apr 2008 YTD	Apr 2007 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	176,691	104,040	69.8%
- Stock Futures	694	2,220	-68.7%
- Interest Rates Futures	1 3 1	176	-25.7%
- Equity Index Options	19,671	3 5,9 3 6	-45. 3 %
- Stock Options	252,206	124,074	10 3 . 3 %
Clearing & Settlement	Apr 2008 YTD	Apr 2007 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	629,566	442,544	42.26%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	68,601	50,691	35.33%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	601	795	-24.40%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 30 April 2008

Top 10 Hang Seng Index Closes

Top 10 Daily Market Turnover
(Main Board and GEM)

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Record High for Top-5 Derivatives Market Products (Based on Contract Volume)

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - April 2008