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HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - August 2015

Date 07/09/2015

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first eight months of 2015 was $121.5 billion, an increase of 89 per cent when compared with $64.4 billion for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of ETFs for the first eight months of 2015 was $10.8 billion, an increase of 238 per cent when compared with $3.2 billion for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first eight months of 2015 was $20.8 billion, an increase of 181 per cent when compared with $7.4 billion for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first eight months of 2015 was $7.1 billion, an increase of 51 per cent when compared with $4.7 billion for the same period last year.
  • Funds raised through IPOs for the first eight months of 2015 was $155.4 billion, an increase of 23 per cent when compared with $126.5 billion for the same period last year.
  • Total funds raised for the first eight months of 2015 was $833.6 billion, an increase of 42 per cent when compared with $586.7 billion for the same period last year.

 

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first eight months of 2015 was 815,473 contracts, an increase of 54 per cent when compared with the 529,371 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of stock options for the first eight months of 2015 was 430,869 contracts, an increase of 58 per cent when compared with the 272,411 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index futures for the first eight months of 2015 was 285,523 contacts, an increase of 52 per cent when compared with the 188,335 contacts for the same period last year.
  • In August, RMB Currency Futures reached a monthly record of 42,412 contracts traded.  On 12 August 2015, RMB Currency Futures reached a record high of 8,061 contracts.
  • On 25 August 2015, the turnover of Mini Hang Seng Index Futures reached a record high of 94,001 contracts.
  • On 26 August 2015, the turnover and the open interest of H-shares Index Futures reached record high of 467,559 contracts and 455,165 contracts respectively.
  • On 27 August 2015, the open interest of H-shares Index Options reached a record high of 2,170,216 contracts.

 

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

 

Aug 2015

Aug 2014

End 2014

No. of listed companies

 1,810

1,716

 1,752

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

23,713.1

25,985.0

25,071.8

No. of newly listed companies *

6

8

122

No. of listed securities

10,302

9,305

9,060

No. of equity warrants

14

6

10

No. of derivatives warrants

5,752

4,819

4,938

No. of CBBCs

1,843

2,067

1,579

No. of unit trusts

143

132

134

No. of debt securities

732

561

640

* Includes the number of transfer of listings from GEM to Main Board

 

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Aug 2015

Jul 2015

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,979,765

2,773,195

-28.6%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

94,275

126,054

-25.2%

No. of trading days

21

22

-

* Turnover value for securities traded in non-Hong Kong dollar currency have been included

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

Aug 2015
($Mil)

Jul 2015
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

1,295,095.64
(65.4%)

1,841,857.79
(66.4%)

-29.7%

Derivative warrants

358,560.87
(18.1%)

425,634.61
(15.3%)

-15.8%

CBBCs

159,248.65
(8.0%)

193,256.35
(7.0%)

-17.6%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

163,202.25
(8.2%)

310,936.70
(11.2%)

-47.5%

( ) % of market total
Turnover value for securities traded in non-Hong Kong dollar currency have been included

 

ATS Transactions

The total turnover of automated trading services’ (ATS) transactions for August 2015 was $24,176 million (1.2 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Aug 2015

Aug 2014

End 2014

No. of H shares

 213

195

202

No. of Red chips Stocks

144

 130

133

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 563

529

541

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

61.8%

59.0%

60.1%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

71.9%

69.3%

70.7%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Aug 2015

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

26679.25

-12.0%

-11.3%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

463.46

-22.2%

-12.3%

Hang Seng Index

21670.58

-12.0%

-12.4%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

9741.41

-12.5%

-11.1%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4042.55

-8.6%

-16.0%

CES China 120 Index ^

4701.63

-9.7%

14.7%

CES China HK Mainland Index +

5382.27

-11.3%

-9.8%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips
^ - tracks 80 Mainland-listed companies and 40 Hong Kong-listed Mainland enterprises
+ - tracks 40 Hong Kong-listed Mainland enterprises

 

Derivatives Market Turnover

 

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Aug 2015

Jul 2015

% Change

Total Futures

311,557

332,529

-6.3%

Hang Seng Index Futures

77,667

79,868

-2.8%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

45,772

48,256

-5.1%

H-shares Index Futures

151,290

159,631

-5.2%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

31,623

39,740

-20.4%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

43

21

104.8%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

752

277

171.5%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

2

4

-50.0%

CES China 120 Index Futures

27

113

-76.1%

IBOVESPA Futures

0

0

-

MICEX Index Futures

0

0

-

S&P BSE Sensex Index Futures

0

0

-

FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures

0

0

-

Stock Futures

2,212

3,806

-41.9%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

1-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

RMB Currency Futures - USD/CNH Futures 

2,020

691

192.3%

London Aluminium Mini Futures

33

23

43.5%

London Zinc Mini Futures

45

35

28.6%

London Copper Mini Futures

71

64

10.9%

Total Options

493,393

532,015

-7.3%

Hang Seng Index Options

32,111

37,904

-15.3%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

4,341

4,168

4.2%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

24

0

-

H-shares Index Options

77,271

76,281

1.3%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

203

31

554.8%

Stock Options

379,443

413,632

-8.3%

Total Futures and Options

804,950

864,544

-6.9%

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Aug 2015

Jul 2015

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,385,606

1,665,453

-16.80%

Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS

97,285

113,096

-13.98%

Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS

380

493

-22.92%

Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)

99.92

99.91

N/A

Shares deposited in the CCASS depository
  –  % of total issued shares 
  –  % of the total market capitalisation


73.91
55.40


74.02
55.50


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Aug 2015

Jul 2015

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

550,528

479,522

14.8%

–  Stock Futures

16,889

24,038

-29.7%

–  Interest Rates Futures

22

30

-26.7%

–  RMB Currency Futures

14,158

10,924

29.6%

–  London Metal Mini Futures

397

431

-7.9%

–  Equity Index Options

2,375,943

1,982,705

19.8%

–  Stock Options

8,193,821

7,655,494

7.0%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Aug 2015
YTD

Aug 2014
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies #

75

84

-10.7%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

121,458

64,373

88.7%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

219,817

129,495

69.7%

Average no. of trades per trading day

1,576,212

1,020,962

54.4%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

155,378

126,540

22.8%

Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*

833,619

586,717

42.1%

Derivatives Market

Aug 2015
YTD

Aug 2014
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

285,523

188,335

51.6%

– Stock Futures

3,491

1,592

119.3%

– Interest Rates Futures

1

0

-

– RMB Currency Futures

917

839

9.3%

– Gold Futures ~

0

0

-

– London Metal Mini Futures +

218

-

-

– Equity Index Options

94,455

66,194

42.7%

– Stock Options

430,869

272,411

58.2%

Clearing & Settlement

Aug 2015 YTD

Aug 2014
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,522,680

1,020,317

49.24%

Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS

106,058

86,915

22.02%

Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS

527

385

36.88%

# Includes the number of transfer of listings from GEM to Main Board
^ Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included
* Provisional figures only
~ Trading in Gold Futures suspended with effect from 27 May 2015
+ Trading in London Metal Mini Futures commenced on 01 Dec 2014

 

Historical Records
up to 31 August 2015

Top 10 Hang Seng Index Closes

Rank

Date

Close

1

2007/10/30

31638.22

2

2007/10/29

31586.90

3

2007/11/01

31492.88

4

2007/10/31

31352.58

5

2007/11/02

30468.34

6

2007/10/26

30405.22

7

2007/10/25

29854.49

8

2007/11/07

29708.93

9

2007/12/06

29558.92

10

2007/10/15

29540.78

 

Top 10 Daily Market Turnover
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank

Date

Turnover ($)

1

2015/04/09

293,910,756,648

2

2015/04/13

266,098,632,854

3

2015/04/08

252,396,050,844

4

2015/04/14

239,903,336,931

5

2015/07/08

237,429,139,110

6

2015/04/10

222,888,834,174

7

2015/04/15

218,018,391,899

8

2015/04/17

215,953,404,099

9

2015/07/06

214,812,393,078

10

2015/07/09

213,825,663,405

 

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank

Date

Market Capitalisation ($)

1

2015/05/26

31,549,926,214,937

2

2015/05/27

31,365,605,931,773

3

2015/05/04

31,230,244,838,810

4

2015/04/27

31,207,701,541,939

5

2015/04/28

31,201,357,832,733

6

2015/04/29

31,147,874,933,908

7

2015/05/22

31,110,175,634,968

8

2015/05/19

31,108,059,908,400

9

2015/06/01

31,107,316,498,262

10

2015/04/30

30,995,152,430,547

 

Record High for Top-10 Derivatives Market Products (Based on Contract Volume)

Product

Record High Daily Volume

Record High Open Interest

 

Contracts

Date

Contracts

Date

Stock Options

1,221,324

2015/04/13

11,159,128

2015/05/27

H-shares Index Futures

467,559

2015/08/26

455,165

2015/08/26

Hang Seng Index Futures

271,426

2013/06/25

198,789

2007/06/27

H-shares Index Options

170,369

2015/07/08

2,170,216

2015/08/27

Hang Seng Index Options

116,835

2011/08/05

560,087

2012/06/27

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

94,001

2015/08/25

21,682

2011/06/17

Mini H-shares Index Futures

74,511

2015/07/08

16,436

2014/12/11

Stock Futures

27,966

2007/03/28

47,050

2013/03/27

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

20,802

2012/05/24

95,673

2013/11/19

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

13,917

2012/05/18

32,651

2012/05/29