HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

Securities Market

The average daily turnover for the first eight months of 2008 was $80,764 million, an increase of 19 per cent when compared with the same period last year, when it was $68,137 million.
The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first eight months of 2008 was $18,385 million, an increase of 43 per cent when compared with the same period last year, when it was $12,813 million.
The average daily turnover of CBBC for the first eight months of 2008 was $3,222 million, an increase of 2,402 per cent when compared with the same period last year. In August, CBBC's average daily turnover rose to $7,121 million, accounting for 12 per cent of the total securities market turnover for the month. On 7 August 2008, the turnover of CBBC reached a single-day record high of $10,008 million.

Derivatives Market

On 26 August 2008, the daily turnover for Hang Seng Index Futures reached a record high of 205,119 contracts.
On 27 August 2008, the total open interest for Mini Hang Seng Index Options reached a record high of 5,205 contracts.
The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first eight months of 2008 was 420,299 contracts, an increase of 31 per cent when compared with the same period last year, when it was 321,837 contracts.

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

	Aug 2008	Aug 2007	End 2007
No. of listed companies	1,261	1,206	1,241
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	15,303	17,747	20,698
No. of newly listed companies	1	1	84
No. of listed securities	6,148	4,476	6,092
No. of equity warrants	40	29	33
No. of derivatives warrants	4,034	2,986	4,483
No. of CBBC	604	50	131
No. of unit trusts	33	26	26
No. of debt securities	173	175	175

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Aug 2008	Jul 2008	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,129,294	1,391,196	-19%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	59,437	63,236	-6%
No. of trading days	19	22	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Aug 2008	Aug 2007	End 2007
No. of H shares	151	143	146
No. of Red chips Stocks	93	89	93
No. of NHMPE	209	151	200
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	56.5%	56.3%	58.2%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	70.1%	70.8%	69.3%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Aug 2008	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	26062.03	-6.1%	-9.5%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	690.48	-9.8%	-54.2%
Hang Seng Index	21261.89	-6.5%	-11.4%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	11664.43	-6.7%	-18.7%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	4175.30	-11.3%	-14.0%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Aug 2008	Jul 2008	% Change
Total Futures	185, 3 22	166,808	11.1%
Hang Seng Index Futures	96,008	85,846	11.8%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	3 2,196	28,496	1 3 .0%
H-shares Index Futures	54,818	50,1 3 9	9. 3 %
Mini H-shares Index Futures	1,196	1,406	-14.9%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures	0	0	-
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	0	0	-
Stock Futures	1,011	84 3	19.9%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	9 3	75	24.0%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	0	2	-100.0%
3 -Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	22 3 ,699	209,501	6.8%
Hang Seng Index Options	17,115	17,291	-1.0%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	916	74 3	2 3 . 3 %
H-shares Index Options	5,600	6,8 3 6	-18.1%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	0	0	-
Stock Options	200,069	184,6 3 0	8.4%
Total Futures and Options	409,021	3 76, 3 09	8.7%

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Aug 2008	Jul 2008	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	460,941	470,278	-1.99%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	55,119	56,932	-3.18%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	339	402	-15.67%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.88	99.86	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	74.18% 44.86%	75.13% 44.71%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Aug 2008	Jul 2008	% Chan ge
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	202,604	195, 3 68	3 .7%
- Stock Futures	7,592	6,207	22. 3 %
- Interest Rates Futures	2,7 3 8	2,145	27.6%
- Equity Index Options	161,008	154,975	3 .9%
- Stock Options	5,558,479	5,25 3 ,774	5.8%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Aug 2008 YTD	Aug 2007 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	30	47	-36%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	80,764	68,137	19%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	128,562	74,333	73%
Average no. of trades per trading day	559,864	544,332	3%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	61,707	139,256	-56%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	167,973	294,764	-43%
Derivatives Market	Aug 2008 YTD	Aug 2007 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	171,160	118,164	44.8%
- Stock Futures	767	1,582	-51.5%
- Interest Rates Futures	11 3	1 3 7	-17.5%
- Equity Index Options	21, 3 06	41,875	-49.1%
- Stock Options	226,954	160,079	41.8%
Clearing & Settlement	Aug 2008 YTD	Aug 2007 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	559,851	544,328	2.85%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	63,752	59,452	7.23%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	513	901	-43.06%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 August 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 - August 2008