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FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - January 2011

Date 08/02/2011

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover in January 2011 was $75,016 million, a decrease of 4 per cent when compared with $77,966 million for the same period last year. 
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants in January 2011 was $14,565 million, an increase of 51 per cent when compared with $9,628 million for the same period last year. 
  • There were nine* newly listed companies in January 2011, an increase of 350 per cent when compared with two for the same period last year.

* Included two companies which transferred listing from GEM to Main Board. 

 

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options in January 2011 was 506,832 contracts, an increase of 6 per cent when compared with 479,427 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index options in January 2011 was 51,685 contracts, an increase of 10 per cent when compared with 47,145 contracts for the same period last year.
  • On 28 January 2011, the open interest of Mini Hang Seng Index Futures and Mini H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 11,829 and 2,789 contracts respectively.

  

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

 

Jan 2011

Jan 2010

End 2010

No. of listed companies

 1,420

 1,321

 1,413

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

21,234

16,682

21,077

No. of newly listed companies *

9

2

113

No. of listed securities

8,276

6,627

7,900

No. of equity warrants

22

 23

 23

No. of derivatives warrants

5,444

3,710

5,148

No. of CBBC

1,134

1,359

1,064

No. of unit trusts

82

53

79

No. of debt securities

170

158

169

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

  

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Jan 2011

Dec 2010

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,575,345

1,396,362

13%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

75,016

63,471

18%

No. of trading days

21

22

-

 * Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included start from 29 November 2010 

 

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

 

Jan 2011
($Mil)

Dec 2010
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

1,090,314.27
(69.2%)

978,064.53
(70.0%)

11.5%

Derivative warrants

305,868.26
(19.4%)

227,379.87
(16.3%)

34.5%

CBBC

122,137.06
(7.8%)

136,209.44
(9.8%)

-10.3%

Debt securities

0.80
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

0.10
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

700.0%

( ) % of market total
Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included start from 29 November 2010

   

 

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

 

Jan 2011

Jan 2010

End 2010

No. of H shares

 163

156

163

No. of Red chips Stocks

102

 97

102

No. of NHMPE

 330

 271

 327

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

55.7%

58.0%

56.6%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

64.3%

72.2%

68.0%

  

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Jan 2011

% Change over
1 Month

% Change over
12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

27969.05

2.1%

17.7%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

756.15

-6.7%

7.3%

Hang Seng Index

23447.34

1.8%

16.5%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

12560.66

-1.0%

9.2%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4152.62

-0.4%

7.2%

 
# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

 Derivatives Market Turnover

 

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Jan 2011

Dec 2010

% Change

Total Futures

163,126

162,369

0.5%

Hang Seng Index Futures

82,160

78,564

4.6%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

31,541

32,992

-4.4%

H-shares Index Futures

42,912

44,811

-4.2%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

4,625

4,488

3.1%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures 1

116

31

274.2%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures 2

38

26

46.2%

Stock Futures

1,697

1,426

19.0%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

3

8

-62.5%

1-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

Gold Futures

35

21

66.7%

Total Options

343,706

317,738

8.2%

Hang Seng Index Options

36,793

36,691

0.3%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

2,473

2,265

9.2%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options 3

19

153

-87.6%

H-shares Index Options

12,401

14,243

-12.9%

Flexible H-shares Index Options 4

0

0

-

Stock Options

292,021

264,386

10.5%

Total Futures and Options

506,832

480,107

5.6%

1 Trading in HSI Dividend Point Index Futures commenced on 01 Nov 2010
2 Trading in HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures commenced on 01 Nov 2010
3 Trading in Flexible Hang Seng Index Options commenced on 08 Feb 2010
4 Trading in Flexible H-shares Index Options commenced on 08 Feb 2010 

 

Clearing and Settlement  

CCASS Statistics (securities market) 

Jan 2011

Dec 2010

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

801,317 

740,199

8.26% 

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

83,822 

86,138

-2.69% 

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

537 

533

0.75% 

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

99.89  

99.85

N/A  

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


72.10%
50.30% 


71.80%
49.57% 


N/A
N/A  

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market) 

Jan 2011

Dec 2010

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

  –  Equity Index Futures

220,088

195,184

12.8%

  –  Stock Futures

16,644

11,514

44.6%

  –  Interest Rates Futures

278

267

4.1%

  –  Gold Futures

207

85

143.5%

  –  Equity Index Options

374,451

298,137

25.6%

  –  Stock Options

6,276,824

5,381,215

16.6%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Jan 2011
YTD

Jan 2010
YTD
 

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

9

2

350%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

75,016

77,966

-4%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

163,658

130,275

26%

Average no. of trades per trading day

801,360

890,954

-10%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

2,002

20,454

-90%

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

19,584

47,769

-59%

Derivatives Market 

Jan 2011
YTD

Jan 2010
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

161,391

188,397

-14.3%

– Stock Futures

1,697

864

96.4%

– Interest Rates Futures

3

15

-80.0%

– Gold Futures

35

31

12.9%

– Equity Index Options

51,685

47,145

9.6%

– Stock Options

292,021

242,975

20.2%

Clearing & Settlement

Jan 2011
YTD

Jan 2010
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

801,317

890,948

-10.06%

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

83,822

83,443

0.45%

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

537

670

-19.85%

# Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board
^  Turnover value for traded in non-HKD currency securities have been included start from 29 November 2010
* Provisional figures only

 

Historical Records
up to 31 January 2011 

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

2007/10/30

        23,196,977,098,941

2

2007/11/01

        23,176,749,100,222

3

2007/10/29

        23,070,544,404,276

4

2007/10/31

        23,069,877,573,111

5

2007/11/02

        22,518,847,046,433

6

2010/11/08

        22,297,367,476,072

7

2007/10/26

        22,285,176,719,928

8

2007/11/07

        22,202,420,942,652

9

2010/11/11

        22,177,709,007,319

10

2010/11/05

        22,168,061,232,445

 

Record High for Top-5 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

8,825,259

2010/11/26

Hang Seng Index Futures

228,392

2010/10/26

198,789

2007/06/27

H-shares Index Futures

219,689

2008/10/28

162,527

2010/10/27

Hang Seng Index Options

85,981

2007/11/28

477,129

2010/12/29

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

63,991

2008/01/24

11,829

2011/01/28