HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

- Securities Market

The average daily turnover for the first eight months of 2009 was $61,313 million, a decrease of 24 per cent when compared with $80,764 million for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first eight months of 2009 was $6,820 million, an increase of 112 per cent when compared with $3,222 million for the same period last year.

- Derivatives Market

The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first eight months of 2009 was 406,706 contracts, a decrease of 3 per cent when compared with 420,299 contracts for the same period last year.
On 27 August 2009 , the turnover of Mini H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 5,326 contracts.

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

	Aug 2009	Aug 2008	End 2008
No. of listed companies	1,280	1,261	1,261
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	15,079	15,303	10,299
No. of newly listed companies *	2	7	49
No. of listed securities	6,480	6,148	5,831
No. of equity warrants	28	40	37
No. of derivatives warrants	3,070	4,034	3,011
No. of CBBC	1,889	604	1,314
No. of unit trusts	46	33	33
No. of debt securities	164	173	172

* Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Aug 2009	Jul 2009	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,474,934	1,524,461	-3%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	70,235	69,294	1%
No. of trading days	21	22	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Aug 2009	Aug 2008	End 2008
No. of H shares	151	151	150
No. of Red chips Stocks	96	93	93
No. of NHMPE	231	209	222
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	57.7%	56.5%	59.8%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	71.2%	70.1%	70.8%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Aug 2009	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	23240.67	-4.4%	-10.8%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	609.29	-5.4%	-11.8%
Hang Seng Index	19724.19	-4.1%	-7.2%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	11278.26	-7.0%	-3.3%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3843.85	-7.4%	-7.9%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Aug 2009	Jul 2009	% Change
Total Futures	187,497	179,190	4.6%
Hang Seng Index Futures	89,610	86,942	3.1%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	40,449	41,941	-3.6%
H-shares Index Futures	51,644	45,879	12.6%
Mini H-shares Index Futures	4,075	3,229	26.2%
Stock Futures	1,704	1,186	43.7%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	2	6	-66.7%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	0	1	-100.0%
3 -Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Gold Futures	13	7	85.7%
Total Options	192,006	181,940	5.5%
Hang Seng Index Options	20,536	21,442	-4.2%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	978	1,205	-18.8%
H-shares Index Options	5,904	5,909	-0.1%
Stock Options	164,587	153,384	7.3%
Total Futures and Options	379,503	361,129	5.1%

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Aug 2009	Jul 2009	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	763,647	806,064	-5.26%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	73,222	71,889	1.85%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	548	623	-12.04%
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	71.73% 47.57%	72.41% 48.74%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Aug 2009	Jul 2009	% Chan ge
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	175,003	176,956	-1.1%
- Stock Futures	8,474	10,477	-19.1%
- Interest Rates Futures	539	543	-0.7%
- Gold Futures	42	42	0.0%
- Equity Index Options	462,496	376,001	23.0%
- Stock Options	4,561,843	4,208,840	8.4%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Aug 2009 YTD	Aug 2008 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies #	25	36	-31%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	61,313	80,764	-24%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	96,783	128,562	-25%
Average no. of trades per trading day	703,274	559,864	26%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	28,152	62,331	-55%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	318,167	174,945	82%
Derivatives Market	Aug 2009 YTD	Aug 2008 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	183,806	171,160	7.4%
- Stock Futures	1,237	767	61.3%
- Interest Rates Futures	15	113	-86.7%
- Gold Futures **	22	0	-
- Equity Index Options	27,926	21,306	31.1%
- Stock Options	193,701	226,954	-14.7%
Clearing & Settlement	Aug 2009 YTD	Aug 2008 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	703,267	559,851	25.62%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	67,090	63,752	5.24%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	538	513	4.87%

# Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board
* Provisional figures only
** Trading in Gold Futures commenced on 20 Oct 2008

Historical Records
up to 31 August 2009

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 2009