Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - March 2013

Date 08/04/2013

Highlights

  

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first three months of 2013 was $74,356 million, an increase of 18 per cent when compared with $63,210 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first three months of 2013 was $10,268 million, an increase of 19 per cent when compared with $8,621 million for the same period last year.

  

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first three months of 2013 was 552,686 contracts, an increase of 12 per cent when compared with the 493,555 contracts for the same period last year.
  • On 25 March 2013, the turnover of H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 275,084 contracts.
  • On 26 March 2013, the open interest of H-shares Index Options reached a record high of 948,132 contracts.
  • On 27 March 2013, the open interest of Stock Futures reached a record high of 47,050 contracts.

 

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

 

Mar 2013

Mar 2012

End 2012

No. of listed companies

 1,557

 1,510

 1,547

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

21,953.2

19,775.3

21,950.1

No. of newly listed companies *

4

4

64

No. of listed securities

7,742

7,029

6,903

No. of equity warrants

11

15

11

No. of derivatives warrants

4,484

4,094

3,747

No. of CBBCs

1,276

1,097

1,214

No. of unit trusts

111

100

111

No. of debt securities

299

209

269

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

 

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Mar 2013

Feb 2013

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,444,855

1,220,242

18%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

72,243

71,779

1%

No. of trading days

20

17

-

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

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

Mar 2013
($Mil)

Feb 2013
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

1,000,040.31
(69.2%)

853,556.54
(69.9%)

17.2%

Derivative warrants

205,565.67
(14.2%)

178,707.39
(14.6%)

15.0%

CBBCs

135,731.76
(9.4%)

91,472.74
(7.5%)

48.4%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

103,362.19
(7.2%)

96,351.51
(7.9%)

7.3%

 ( ) % 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 March 2013 was $36,606 million (2.5 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Mar 2013

Mar 2012

End 2012

No. of H shares

 175

167

176

No. of Red chips Stocks

120

 107

108

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 442

415

437

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

56.2%

58.2%

57.4%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

70.2%

65.0%

69.6%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures 

 

Mar 2013

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

26597.26

-3.0%

7.3%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

400.38

-3.5%

-10.6%

Hang Seng Index

22299.63

-3.1%

8.5%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

10896.22

-4.7%

2.4%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

4362.55

-5.0%

9.4%

 

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

  

Derivatives Market Turnover

 

Average Daily Volume (Contracts)

Mar 2013

Feb 2013

% Change

Total Futures

215,206

204,771

5.1%

Hang Seng Index Futures

87,215

83,548

4.4%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

36,861

28,653

28.6%

H-shares Index Futures

77,882

81,013

-3.9%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

8,720

8,140

7.1%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

15

165

-90.9%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

1,282

3

42633.3%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

3

2

50.0%

IBOVESPA Futures

0

0

-

MICEX Index Futures

0

0

-

Sensex Index Futures

0

0

-

FTSE/JSE Top40 Futures

0

0

-

Stock Futures

2,879

2,895

-0.6%

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 

349

352

-0.9%

Gold Futures

0

0

-

Total Options

335,542

343,559

-2.3%

Hang Seng Index Options

42,977

39,212

9.6%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

5,388

4,933

9.2%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

15

0

-

H-shares Index Options

26,819

26,875

-0.2%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

608

35

1637.1%

Stock Options

259,734

272,504

-4.7%

Total Futures and Options

550,748

548,330

0.4%

 

  

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Mar 2013

Feb 2013

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

994,979

925,120

7.55%

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

88,448

86,036

2.80%

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

404

398

1.51%

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

99.89%

99.92%

N/A

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


69.58%
51.66%


69.99%
51.82%


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Mar 2013

Feb 2013

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

319,923

347,825

-8.0%

–  Stock Futures

39,257

35,908

9.3%

–  Interest Rates Futures

0

0

-

–  RMB Currency Futures

4,791

5,047

-5.1%

–  Gold Futures

0

0

-

–  Equity Index Options

1,097,288

1,195,311

-8.2%

–  Stock Options

4,758,454

5,648,529

-15.8%

 

 

 Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Mar 2013
YTD

Mar 2012
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies # 

11

18

-38.9%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

74,356

63,210

17.6%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

172,655

160,507

7.6%

Average no. of trades per trading day

991,994

877,396

13.1%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

8,109

9,814

-17.4%

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

56,222

61,959

-9.3%

Derivatives Market

Mar 2013
YTD

Mar 2012
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

200,456

193,625

3.5%

– Stock Futures

2,988

1,293

131.1%

– Interest Rates Futures

0

2

-100.0%

– RMB Currency Futures

425

-

-

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– Equity Index Options

70,702

60,191

17.5%

– Stock Options

278,115

238,445

16.6%

Clearing & Settlement

Mar 2013
YTD

Mar 2012
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

990,740

877,050

12.96%

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

89,261

79,872

11.76%

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

463

351

31.91%

 

# 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 31 March 2013 

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

2013/01/30

23,174,639,554,061

4

2013/02/04

23,158,596,585,808

5

2013/01/22

23,141,347,249,941

6

2013/02/01

23,140,149,024,689

7

2013/01/21

23,097,666,249,380

8

2013/01/31

23,097,373,119,753

9

2013/01/23

23,085,380,606,572

10

2007/10/29

23,070,544,404,276

 

 

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

275,084

2013/03/25

265,227

2013/01/29

Hang Seng Index Futures

235,385

2011/08/09

198,789

2007/06/27

Hang Seng Index Options

116,835

2011/08/05

560,087

2012/06/27

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

86,812

2011/08/09

21,682

2011/06/17

H-shares Index Options

67,677

2012/09/14

948,132

2013/03/26

Stock Futures

27,966

2007/03/28

47,050

2013/03/27

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

20,802

2012/05/24

77,555

2012/10/29

Mini H-shares Index Futures

19,556

2011/08/09

6,684

2012/04/24

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

13,917

2012/05/18

32,651

2012/05/29