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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - February 2014

Date 06/03/2014

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first two months of 2014 was $66,726 million, a decrease of 12 per cent when compared with $75,440 million for the same period last year.
  • There were 19 new listings (including transfers from Growth Enterprise Market, or GEM, to Main Board) in the first two months of 2014, an increase of 171 per cent when compared with 7 in the same period last year.
  • Funds raised through IPOs for the first two months of 2014 was $29,059 million, an increase of 356 per cent when compared with $6,369 million for the same period last year.

 

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first two months of 2014 was 558,715 contracts, an increase of 1 per cent when compared with the 553,679 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of RMB Currency Futures for the first two months of 2014 was 1,100 contracts, an increase of 138 per cent when compared with the 463 contracts for the same period last year.
  • On 14 and 25 February 2014, the open interest and turnover of RMB Currency Futures reached a record high of 23,887 contracts and 5,970 contracts respectively.

 

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

 

Feb 2014

Feb 2013

End 2013

No. of listed companies

 1,660

1,554

 1,643

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

23,682.1

22,660.4

24,042.8

No. of newly listed companies *

4

3

110

No. of listed securities

9,153

7,531

8,522

No. of equity warrants

9

11

8

No. of derivatives warrants

5,134

4,300

4,715

No. of CBBCs

1,780

1,259

1,620

No. of unit trusts

129

111

129

No. of debt securities

437

292

403

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

 

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Feb 2014

Jan 2014

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,242,000

1,427,057

-13%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

65,368

67,955

-4%

No. of trading days

19

21

-

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

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

Feb 2014
($Mil)

Jan 2014
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

953,677.94
(76.8%)

1,118,519.82
(78.4%)

-14.7%

Derivative warrants

137,177.86
(11.0%)

144,533.41
(10.1%)

-5.1%

CBBCs

97,002.00
(7.8%)

98,882.75
(6.9%)

-1.9%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

53,935.90
(4.3%)

64,890.96
(4.5%)

-16.9%

( ) % 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 February 2014 was $20,439 million (1.6 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Feb 2014

Feb 2013

End 2013

No. of H shares

 185

176

182

No. of Red chips Stocks

129

 120

122

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 498

440

493

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

56.3%

56.7%

56.9%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

68.2%

71.6%

71.6%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Feb 2014

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

27738.66

4.2%

1.2%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

556.16

8.9%

34.1%

Hang Seng Index

22836.96

3.6%

-0.8%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

9891.42

0.7%

-13.5%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4261.39

1.0%

-7.2%

CES China 120 Index ^

3739.44

2.0%

-14.1%

CES China HK Mainland Index +

5384.57

3.0%

-2.6%

# - 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)

Feb 2014

Jan 2014

% Change

Total Futures

205,454

202,716

1.4%

Hang Seng Index Futures

71,437

72,158

-1.0%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

26,908

26,124

3.0%

H-shares Index Futures

91,460

89,222

2.5%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

11,878

10,719

10.8%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

213

83

156.6%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

437

1,890

-76.9%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

2

3

-33.3%

CES China 120 Index Futures

152

234

-35.0%

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

1,506

1,508

-0.1%

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 

1,461

774

88.8%

Gold Futures

0

0

-

Total Options

355,120

354,316

0.2%

Hang Seng Index Options

28,741

28,045

2.5%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

3,734

3,510

6.4%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

8

0

-

H-shares Index Options

37,827

39,228

-3.6%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

0

164

-100.0%

Stock Options

284,810

283,369

0.5%

Total Futures and Options

560,574

557,033

0.6%

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Feb 2014

Jan 2014

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,075,660

1,104,777

-2.64%

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

88,838

88,714

0.14%

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

373

441

-15.42%

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

99.92%

99.89%

N/A

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


70.16
52.50


70.34
52.29


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Feb 2014

Jan 2014

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

421,109

416,838

1.0%

–  Stock Futures

21,798

19,312

12.9%

–  Interest Rates Futures

1

1

0.0%

–  RMB Currency Futures

15,089

22,636

-33.3%

–  Gold Futures

0

0

-

–  Equity Index Options

1,346,327

1,251,425

7.6%

–  Stock Options

6,267,392

5,600,410

11.9%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Feb 2014
YTD

Feb 2013
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies #

19

7

171.4%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

66,726

75,440

-11.6%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

137,550

161,865

-15.0%

Average no. of trades per trading day

1,091,624

989,839

10.3%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

29,059

6,369

356.3%

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

70,489

51,251ust

37.5%

Derivatives Market

Feb 2014
YTD

Feb 2013
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

201,409

194,548

3.5%

– Stock Futures

1,507

3,044

-50.5%

– Interest Rates Futures

0

0

-

– RMB Currency Futures

1,100

463

137.6%

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– Equity Index Options

70,645

68,083

3.8%

– Stock Options

284,053

287,541

-1.2%

Clearing & Settlement

Feb 2014
YTD

Feb 2013
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,090,947

988,566

10.36%

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

88,774

89,678

-1.01%

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

408

494

-17.41%

# 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

 

Historical Records
up to 28 February 2014

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

2007/10/03

210,505,533,155

2

2007/10/16

201,413,369,933

3

2007/10/12

195,962,197,177

4

2007/10/30

185,681,499,300

5

2007/10/11

179,409,273,541

6

2007/10/29

178,382,190,802

7

2007/10/15

174,984,449,067

8

2007/11/06

170,352,755,573

9

2007/10/18

169,121,203,305

10

2007/10/25

165,926,117,174

 

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Rank

Date

Market Capitalisation ($)

1

2013/12/02

24,271,527,521,289

2

2013/12/03

24,193,519,377,510

3

2013/11/29

24,134,626,917,520

4

2013/12/09

24,116,587,381,535

5

2013/12/04

24,110,964,447,941

6

2014/01/02

24,093,887,485,876

7

2013/12/05

24,093,010,330,620

8

2013/12/06

24,053,539,516,728

9

2013/12/10

24,053,384,524,875

10

2013/12/31

24,042,805,866,135

 

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

805,947

2008/03/27

9,218,955

2011/11/28

H-shares Index Futures

389,031

2013/06/25

334,575

2013/12/24

Hang Seng Index Futures

271,426

2013/06/25

198,789

2007/06/27

Hang Seng Index Options

116,835

2011/08/05

560,087

2012/06/27

H-shares Index Options

113,156

2013/11/19

1,437,711

2013/12/19

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

86,812

2011/08/09

21,682

2011/06/17

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 H-shares Index Futures

19,556

2011/08/09

6,951

2013/09/23

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

13,917

2012/05/18

32,651

2012/05/29