Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - March 2011

Date 07/04/2011

 

ighlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first three months of 2011 was $75,917 million, an increase of 17 per cent when compared with $64,760 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first three months of 2011 was $13,378 million, an increase of 39 per cent when compared with $9,646 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first three months of 2011 was $5,921 million, an increase of 24 per cent when compared with $4,757 million for the same period last year.

     

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first three months of 2011 was 546,164 contracts, an increase of 31 per cent when compared with 417,305 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index options for the first three months of 2011 was 60,642 contracts, an increase of 49 per cent when compared with 40,631 contracts for the same period last year.
  • On 15 March 2011, the turnover of Mini Hang Seng Index Futures, Mini H-shares Index Futures and Mini Hang Seng Index Options reached a record high of 79,706, 13,593 and 9,192 contracts respectively.
  • On 29 March 2011, the open interest of Mini Hang Seng Index Options reached a record high of 19,793 contracts.

 

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

 

Mar 2011

Mar 2010

End 2010

No. of listed companies

 1,426

 1,332

 1,413

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

21,397

18,056

21,077

No. of newly listed companies *

7

6

113

No. of listed securities

8,370

6,891

7,900

No. of equity warrants

25

 21

 23

No. of derivatives warrants

5,689

3,974

5,148

No. of CBBC

974

1,331

1,064

No. of unit trusts

82

70

79

No. of debt securities

170

160

169

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

 

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Mar 2011

Feb 2011

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,821,244

1,310,250

39%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

79,185

72,792

9%

No. of trading days

23

18

-

 * 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)

 

Mar 2011
($Mil)

Feb 2011
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

1,323,162.17
(72.7%)

924,307.14
(70.5%)

43.2%

Derivative warrants

298,763.68
(16.4%)

224,803.01
(17.2%)

32.9%

CBBC

137,170.29
(7.5%)

107,789.70
(8.2%)

27.3%

Debt securities

0.92
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

0.25
(0.0%)
(less than 0.1%)

268.0%

( ) % 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

 

Mar 2011

Mar 2010

End 2010

No. of H shares

 163

156

163

No. of Red chips Stocks

103

 97

102

No. of NHMPE

 334

 277

 327

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

57.2%

58.1%

56.6%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

65.0%

67.2%

68.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Mar 2011

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

28034.90

0.6%

12.8%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

769.66

4.3%

-7.5%

Hang Seng Index

23527.52

0.8%

10.8%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

13315.84

6.5%

7.4%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4244.39

6.2%

3.5%


# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

 

 

Derivatives Market Turnover

 

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Mar 2011

Feb 2011

% Change

Total Futures

200,726

194,253

3.3%

Hang Seng Index Futures

95,586

95,172

0.4%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

39,188

35,040

11.8%

H-shares Index Futures

57,263

56,455

1.4%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

6,673

5,647

18.2%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures 1

22

237

-90.7%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures 2

60

45

33.3%

Stock Futures

1,908

1,635

16.7%

3-Month HIBOR Futures

1

3

-66.7%

1-Month HIBOR Futures

2

0

-

3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures

0

0

-

Gold Futures

21

20

5.0%

Total Options

391,547

338,509

15.7%

Hang Seng Index Options

45,787

48,457

-5.5%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

3,902

3,071

27.1%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options 3

192

0

-

H-shares Index Options

15,894

13,116

21.2%

Flexible H-shares Index Options 4

0

0

-

Stock Options

325,772

273,865

19.0%

Total Futures and Options

592,272

532,762

11.2%

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)

Mar 2011

Feb 2011

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

939,562

809,981

16.00%

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

87,058

88,307

-1.41%

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

509

500

1.80%

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

99.88

99.92

N/A

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


72.49%50.44%


72.05%49.90%


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Mar 2011

Feb 2011

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

    Equity Index Futures

215,793

199,623

8.1%

    Stock Futures

18,118

17,062

6.2%

    Interest Rates Futures

173

293

-41.0%

    Gold Futures

178

170

4.7%

   Equity Index Options

375,791

456,414

-17.7%

    Stock Options

5,912,772

6,583,920

-10.2%

 

 Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Mar 2011
YTD

Mar 2010
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies #

17

13

43%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

75,917

64,760

17%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

164,900

121,801

35%

Average no. of trades per trading day

855,156

760,576

12%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

16,802

33,962

-51%

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

65,634

87,138

-25%

Derivatives Market

Mar 2011
YTD

Mar 2010
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

184,258

170,448

8.1%

– Stock Futures

1,758

621

183.1%

– Interest Rates Futures

3

6

-50.0%

– Gold Futures

26

19

36.8%

– Equity Index Options

60,642

40,631

49.3%

– Stock Options

299,477

205,581

45.7%

Clearing & Settlement

Mar 2011
YTD

Mar 2010
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

855,117

760,565

12.43%

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

86,292

75,816

13.82%

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

516

542

-4.80%

# 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 March 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

79,706

2011/03/15

12,619

2011/02/15