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HKEX Monthly Market Highlights - January 2016

Date 04/02/2016

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover in January 2016 was $82.2 billion, a decrease of 16 per cent when compared with $97.4 billion for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants in January 2016 was $17.5 billion, an increase of 7 per cent when compared with $16.3 billion for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of CBBCs in January 2016 was $8.1 billion, an increase of 5 per cent when compared with $7.7 billion for the same period last year.
  • Funds raised through IPOs in January 2016 was $4.3 billion, an increase of 87 per cent when compared with $2.3 billion for the same period last year.

  

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options in January 2016 was 941,648 contracts, an increase of 22 per cent when compared with the 770,683 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index futures in January 2016 was 440,282 contacts, an increase of 70 per cent when compared with the 258,988 contacts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index options in January 2016 was 150,656 contacts, an increase of 92 per cent when compared with the 78,299 contacts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of RMB Currency Futures in January 2016 was 3,264 contracts, an increase of 256 per cent when compared with the 916 contracts for the same period last year.
  • On 7 and 29 January 2016, the turnover and the open interest of HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures reached a record high of 25,553 contracts and 107,086 contracts respectively.
  • On 13 January 2016, the open interest of RMB Currency Futures reached a record high of 30,792 contracts.

 

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

 

Jan 2016

Jan 2015

End 2015

No. of listed companies

 1,873

1,763

 1,866

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

21,850.0

25,772.6

24,683.7

No. of newly listed companies *

8

13

138

No. of listed securities

8,953

9,483

9,015

No. of equity warrants

13

11

13

No. of derivatives warrants

4,566

5,178

4,590

No. of CBBCs

1,578

1,740

1,630

No. of unit trusts

146

136

145

No. of debt securities

768

648

762

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

  

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Jan 2016

Dec 2015

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,644,625

1,356,846

21.2%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

82,231

61,675

33.3%

No. of trading days

20

22

-

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

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

Jan 2016
($Mil)

Dec 2015
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

999,306.01
(60.8%)

883,510.76
(65.1%)

13.1%

Derivative warrants

350,382.60
(21.3%)

232,974.46
(17.2%)

50.4%

CBBCs

161,263.45
(9.8%)

143,309.22
(10.6%)

12.5%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

133,201.72
(8.1%)

96,676.70
(7.1%)

37.8%

( ) % 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 January 2016 was $19,238 million (1.2% of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Jan 2016

Jan 2015

End 2015

No. of H shares

 229

204

229

No. of Red chips Stocks

151

 143

145

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 577

542

577

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

62.0%

60.3%

62.1%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

72.1%

74.7%

72.7%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Jan 2016

% Change 
over 1 Month

% Change 
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

24404.55

-9.6%

-18.1%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

417.85

-12.4%

-12.9%

Hang Seng Index

19683.11

-10.2%

-19.7%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

8241.36

-14.7%

-29.7%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

3472.35

-14.3%

-22.5%

CES China 120 Index ^

4317.80

-14.4%

-15.4%

CES China HK Mainland Index +

4845.72

-10.6%

-20.6%

# - 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)

Jan 2016

Dec 2015

% Change

Total Futures

445,949

300,861

48.2%

Hang Seng Index Futures

165,987

111,020

49.5%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

60,390

36,910

63.6%

H-shares Index Futures

177,999

125,873

41.4%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

32,267

21,696

48.7%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

13

0

-

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

3,622

826

338.5%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

1

0

-

CES China 120 Index Futures

4

3

33.3%

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

2,323

2,234

4.0%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

1-Month HIBOR Futures

0

0

-

RMB Currency Futures - USD/CNH Futures 

3,264

2,071

57.6%

London Aluminium Mini Futures

7

28

-75.0%

London Zinc Mini Futures

52

108

-51.9%

London Copper Mini Futures

18

85

-78.8%

London Lead Mini Futures1

0

0

-

London Nickel Mini Futures2

3

12

-75.0%

London Tin Mini Futures3

0

0

-

Total Options

495,699

309,954

59.9%

Hang Seng Index Options

45,831

26,833

70.8%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

5,628

3,158

78.2%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

0

136

-100.0%

H-shares Index Options

99,198

63,634

55.9%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

0

66

-100.0%

Stock Options

345,043

216,126

59.6%

Total Futures and Options

941,648

610,815

54.2%

Trading in London Lead Mini Futures commenced on 14 Dec 2015
Trading in London Nickel Mini Futures commenced on 14 Dec 2015
Trading in London Tin Mini Futures commenced on 14 Dec 2015

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Jan 2016

Dec 2015

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,278,822

996,153

28.38%

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

88,617

89,188

-0.64%

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

279

264

5.68%

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

99.92

99.93

N/A

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


74.09
56.21


74.50
56.58


N/A 
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Jan 2016

Dec 2015

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

667,263

573,542

16.3%

–  Stock Futures

12,549

20,088

-37.5%

–  Interest Rates Futures

2

0

-

–  RMB Currency Futures

30,516

23,046

32.4%

–  London Metal Mini Futures

230

350

-34.3%

–  Equity Index Options

2,406,074

1,822,276

32.0%

–  Stock Options

5,936,715

4,827,678

23.0%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Jan 2016
YTD

Jan 2015
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

8

13

-38.5%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

82,231

97,443

-15.6%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

257,581

207,584

24.1%

Average no. of trades per trading day

1,279,779

1,280,117

0.0%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

4,316

2,307

87.1%

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

15,230

34,402

-55.7%

Derivatives Market

Jan 2016
YTD

Jan 2015
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

440,282

258,988

70.0%

– Stock Futures

2,323

3,348

-30.6%

– Interest Rates Futures

0

0

-

– RMB Currency Futures

3,264

916

256.3%

– Gold Futures ~

0

0

-

– London Metal Mini Futures

80

421

-81.0%

– Equity Index Options

150,656

78,299

92.4%

– Stock Options

345,043

428,711

-19.5%

Clearing & Settlement

Jan 2016 YTD

Jan 2015
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,278,822

1,255,978

1.82%

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

88,617

91,667

-3.33%

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

279

471

-40.76%

# 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

 

Historical Records
up to 31 January 2016 

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

519,817

2015/12/29

Hang Seng Index Futures

271,426

2013/06/25

198,789

2007/06/27

H-shares Index Options

188,957

2015/09/04

2,618,350

2015/09/25

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

25,553

2016/01/07

107,086

2016/01/29

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

13,917

2012/05/18

32,651

2012/05/29