HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

- Securities Market

The securities market turnover for August 2007 reached a single-month record high of $2,168,466 million while average daily turnover of $94,281 million was also the highest in history.
On 27 August 2007, the securities market turnover reached a record high of $127,044 million.
On 31 August 2007, the securities market capitalisation reached an all-time closing high of $17,747 billion.
On 31 August 2007, the Hang Seng Index reached a record closing high of 23984.14.
On 31 August 2007 , the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (H-shares Index) reached a record closing high of 14338.84.

- Derivatives Market

Total trading volume, which comprises all futures and options trading volume, reached a single-month record high of 11,318,418 contracts in August 2007.
On 17 August 2007, the daily turnover for all futures and options reached a record high of 773,545 contracts.
On 29 August 2007, the total open interest for all futures and options reached a record high of 7,595,427 contracts.

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

	Aug 2007	Aug 2006	End 2006
No. of listed companies	1,206	1,149	1,173
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	17,747	10,335	13,338
No. of newly listed companies	1	-	62
No. of listed securities	4,476	2,899	3,383
No. of equity warrants	29	29	28
No. of derivatives warrants	2,986	1,505	1,959
No. of CBBC	50	27	24
No. of unit trusts	26	13	15
No. of debt securities	175	173	180

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Aug 2007	Jul 2007	% Change
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	2,168,466	1,905,011	14%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	94,281	90,715	4%
No. of trading days	23	21	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Aug 2007	Aug 2006	End 2006
No. of H shares	143	130	141
No. of Red chips Stocks	89	90	90
No. of NHMPE	151	128	136
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	56.3%	43.6%	50.3%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	70.8%	55.0%	60.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Aug 2007	% Change over 1 Month	% Change YTD
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	28787.98	3.5%	42.2%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	1506.56	-16.0%	30.1%
Hang Seng Index	23984.14	3.4%	37.9%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	14338.84	7.3%	108.3%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	4856.88	8.3%	88.8%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Aug 2007	Jul 2007	% Change
Total Futures	179,314	121,697	47.3%
Hang Seng Index Futures	90,237	64,153	40.7%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	21,929	10,842	102.3%
H-shares Index Futures	65,389	45,517	43.7%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures¹	3	9	-66.7%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	7	7	0.0%
Stock Futures	1,638	1,096	49.5%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	109	73	49.3%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	2	0	-
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	312,792	272,621	14.7%
Hang Seng Index Options	44,144	41,410	6.6%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	313	161	94.4%
H-shares Index Options	13,190	7,748	70.2%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	16	3	433.3%
Stock Options	255,128	223,300	14.3%
Total Futures and Options	492,105	394,319	24.8%

¹Trading in Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures commenced on 16 Apr 2007 .

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Aug 2007	Jul 2007	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	688,758	694,250	-0.79%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	72,123	71,508	0.86%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	1,017	1,092	-6.87%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.52	99.63	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	67.77% 44.17%	66.17% 43.32%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Aug 2007	Jul 2007	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	223,804	218,903	2.2%
- Stock Futures	10,534	6,419	64.1%
- Interest Rates Futures	10,453	10,222	2.3%
- Equity Index Options	529,508	477,077	11.0%
- Stock Options	5,664,446	4,780,770	18.5%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Aug 2007 YTD	Aug 2006 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	47	31	52%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	68,137	30,288	125%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	74,333	34,468	116%
Average no. of trades per trading day	544,332	230,647	136%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	138,759	113,426	22%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	270,435	217,924	24%
Derivatives Market	Aug 2007 YTD	Aug 2006 YTD	% Change
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	118,164	77,085	53.3%
- Stock Futures	1,582	331	377.9%
- Interest Rates Futures	137	66	107.6%
- Equity Index Options	41,874	18,583	125.3%
- Stock Options	160,079	63,618	151.6%
Clearing & Settlement	Aug 2007 YTD	Aug 2006 YTD	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	544,328	230,643	136.00%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	59,452	34,152	74.08%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	901	528	70.64%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 August 2007

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 - August 2007