HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

Securities Market

The average daily turnover for the first seven months of 2008 was $83,598 million, an increase of 31 per cent when compared with the same period last year, when it was $63,903 million.
The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first seven months of 2008 was $19,615 million, an increase of 60 per cent when compared with the same period last year, when it was $12,232 million.
On 31 July 2008 , the turnover of CBBC reached a single-day record high of $7,731 million.

Derivatives Market

The average daily of futures and options for the first seven months of 2008 was 421,808 contracts, an increase of 43 per cent when compared with the same period last year, when it was 294,258 contracts.

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

	Jul 2008	Jul 2007	End 2007
No. of listed companies	1,260	1,206	1,241
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	16,559	17,441	20,698
No. of newly listed companies	6	14	84
No. of listed securities	6,397	4,260	6,092
No. of equity warrants	40	27	33
No. of derivatives warrants	4,322	2,780	4,483
No. of CBBC	566	42	131
No. of unit trusts	33	26	26
No. of debt securities	173	175	175

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Jul 2008	Jun 2008	% Chan ge
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,391,196	1,286,877	8%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	63,236	64,344	-2%
No. of trading days	22	20	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Jul 2008	Jul 2007	End 2007
No. of H shares	150	143	146
No. of Red chips Stocks	93	88	93
No. of NHMPE	209	151	200
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	57.4%	53.9%	58.2%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	70.5%	65.1%	69.3%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Jul 2008	% Chan ge over 1 Month	% Chan ge over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	27744.67	2.9%	-0.3%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	765.40	-4.02%	-57.3%
Hang Seng Index	22731.10	2.9%	-2.0%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	12506.74	5.0%	-6.4%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	4709.52	-0.9%	5.1%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Jul 2008	Jun 2008	% Change
Total Futures	166,808	166,576	0.1%
Hang Seng Index Futures	85,846	85, 3 4 3	0.6%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	28,496	26,904	5.9%
H-shares Index Futures	50,1 3 9	52, 3 65	-4. 3 %
Mini H-shares Index Futures	1,406	1,162	21.0%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures	0	0	-
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	0	0	-
Stock Futures	84 3	684	2 3 .2%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	75	11 3	- 3 3 .6%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	2	5	-60.0%
3 -Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	209,501	261,145	-19.8%
Hang Seng Index Options	17,291	18,440	-6.2%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	74 3	696	6.8%
H-shares Index Options	6,8 3 6	6, 3 3 9	7.8%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	0	0	-
Stock Options	184,6 3 0	2 3 5,670	-21.7%
Total Futures and Options	3 76, 3 09	427,721	-12.0%

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Jul 2008	Jun 2008	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	470,278	468,239	0.44%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	56,932	60,255	-5.51%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	402	448	-10.27%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.86	99.82	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	75.13% 44.71%	75.61% 44.60%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Jul 2008	Jun 2008	% Chan ge
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	195, 3 68	214,427	-8.9%
- Stock Futures	6,207	6,864	-9.6%
- Interest Rates Futures	2,145	1,815	18.2%
- Equity Index Options	154,975	140,548	10. 3 %
- Stock Options	5,25 3 ,774	4,775,250	10.0%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Jul 2008 YTD	Jul 2007 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	29	46	-37%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	83,598	63,903	31%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	131,313	72,627	81%
Average no. of trades per trading day	573,006	520,938	10%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	57,547	135,443	-58%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	145,266	258,984	-44%
Derivatives Market	Jul 2008 YTD	Jul 2007 YTD	% Chan ge
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	169,41 3	108,542	56.1%
- Stock Futures	7 3 4	1,57 3	-5 3 . 3 %
- Interest Rates Futures	115	141	-18.4%
- Equity Index Options	20,995	3 9, 3 17	-46.6%
- Stock Options	2 3 0,551	144,684	59. 3 %
Clearing & Settlement	Jul 2008 YTD	Jul 2007 YTD	% Chan ge
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	572,993	520,934	9.99%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	64,907	57,399	13.08%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	536	882	-39.23%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 July 2008

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 - July 2008