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HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - May 2015

Date 04/06/2015

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first five months of 2015 was $121,441 million, an increase of 86 per cent when compared with $65,208 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of ETFs for the first five months of 2015 was $10,293 million, an increase of 303 per cent when compared with $2,557 million for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first five months of 2015 was $19,783 million, an increase of 188 per cent when compared with $6,862 million for the same period last year.
  • Total funds raised for the first five months of 2015 was $326,741 million, an increase of 85 per cent when compared with $176,822 million for the same period last year.
  • On 26 May 2015, market capitalisation reached a record high of $31,549.9 billion.

 

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first five months of 2015 reached a record high of 805,805 contracts, an increase of 49 per cent when compared with the 539,625 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of Stock Options for the first five months of the 2015 reached a record high of 449,205 contracts, and increase of 66 per cent when compared with the 271,257 contracts for the same period last year.  
  • On 26 May 2015, the turnover of H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 397,125 contracts.
  • On 27 May 2015, the open interest of Stock Options and H-shares Index Options reached record highs of 11,159,128 contracts and 1,606,247 contracts respectively.

  

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

 

May 2015

May 2014

End 2014

No. of listed companies

 1,784

1,673

 1,752

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

30,753.7

23,622.7

25,071.8

No. of newly listed companies *

5

7

122

No. of listed securities

10,362

9,513

9,060

No. of equity warrants

14

7

10

No. of derivatives warrants

5,633

5,327

4,938

No. of CBBCs

2,081

1,856

1,579

No. of unit trusts

142

133

134

No. of debt securities

701

513

640

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

  

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

May 2015

Apr 2015

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

2,948,827

3,801,844

-22.4%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

155,201

200,097

-22.4%

No. of trading days

19

19

-

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

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM) 

 

May 2015
($Mil)

Apr 2015
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

2,031,327.96
(68.9%)

2,868,337.58
(75.4%)

-29.2%

Derivative warrants

580,473.34
(19.7%)

480,416.48
(12.6%)

20.8%

CBBCs

133,463.24
(4.5%)

151,810.33
(4.0%)

-12.1%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

202,434.40
(6.9%)

299,656.94
(7.9%)

-32.4%

( ) % 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 May 2015 was $23,120 million (0.8 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

May 2015

May 2014

End 2014

No. of H shares

 207

188

202

No. of Red chips Stocks

143

 129

133

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 547

505

541

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

62.6%

56.2%

60.1%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

71.6%

66.7%

70.7%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

May 2015

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

33602.26

-1.9%

19.9%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

802.60

16.2%

55.6%

Hang Seng Index

27424.19

-2.5%

18.8%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

14103.81

-2.3%

37.6%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

5176.19

-6.8%

21.4%

CES China 120 Index ^

6318.12

-3.2%

65.4%

CES China HK Mainland Index +

7072.96

-3.6%

30.1%

# - 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)

May 2015

Apr 2015

% Change

Total Futures

301,570

357,424

-15.6%

Hang Seng Index Futures

77,268

89,959

-14.1%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

38,600

45,063

-14.3%

H-shares Index Futures

146,052

175,756

-16.9%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

34,580

38,883

-11.1%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

122

42

190.5%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

316

215

47.0%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

6

5

20.0%

CES China 120 Index Futures

122

245

-50.2%

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

3,680

6,228

-40.9%

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 

542

787

-31.1%

Gold Futures *

0

0

-

London Aluminium Mini Futures

52

32

62.5%

London Zinc Mini Futures

91

54

68.5%

London Copper Mini Futures

139

155

-10.3%

Total Options

535,159

844,864

-36.7%

Hang Seng Index Options

29,033

44,956

-35.4%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

5,073

5,634

-10.0%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

0

0

-

H-shares Index Options

52,376

67,894

-22.9%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

352

566

-37.8%

Stock Options

448,325

725,814

-38.2%

Total Futures and Options

836,729

1,202,287

-30.4%

*  Trading in Gold Futures suspended with effect from 27 May 2015 

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

May 2015

Apr 2015

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,784,985

2,167,106

-17.63%

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

116,917

133,284

-12.28%

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

612

1,022

-40.12%

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

99.92

99.88

N/A

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


74.06
57.26


73.14
55.99


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

May 2015

Apr 2015

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

528,415

554,838

-4.8%

–  Stock Futures

26,439

29,282

-9.7%

–  Interest Rates Futures

35

35

0.0%

–  RMB Currency Futures

8,394

10,219

-17.9%

–  Gold Futures

-

0

-

–  London Metal Mini Futures

387

678

-42.9%

–  Equity Index Options

1,812,877

1,678,225

8.0%

–  Stock Options

9,053,821

8,938,132

1.3%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

May 2015
YTD

May 2014
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies #

38

34

11.8%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

121,441

65,208

86.2%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

205,273

130,095

57.8%

Average no. of trades per trading day

1,539,861

1,062,953

44.9%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

57,642

59,498

-3.1%

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

326,741

176,822

84.8%

Derivatives Market

May 2015
YTD

May 2014
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

267,341

196,680

35.9%

– Stock Futures

3,605

1,567

130.1%

– Interest Rates Futures

1

0

-

– RMB Currency Futures

844

969

-12.9%

– Gold Futures

0

0

-

– London Metal Mini Futures +

286

-

-

– Equity Index Options

84,523

69,152

22.2%

– Stock Options

449,205

271,257

65.6%

Clearing & Settlement

May 2015 YTD

May 2014
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,487,030

1,062,309

39.98%

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

103,758

88,190

17.65%

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

562

387

45.22%

# 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 London Metal Mini Futures commenced on 01 Dec 2014

 

Historical Records
up to 31 May 2015

 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

2015/04/10

222,888,834,174

6

2015/04/15

218,018,391,899

7

2015/04/17

215,953,404,099

8

2015/04/20

212,447,724,665

9

2007/10/03

210,505,533,155

10

2015/05/28

208,618,943,381

 

 

 

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

2015/04/30

30,995,152,430,547

10

2015/05/15

30,944,926,895,145

 

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

397,125

2015/05/26

429,773

2015/04/28

Hang Seng Index Futures

271,426

2013/06/25

198,789

2007/06/27

Hang Seng Index Options

116,835

2011/08/05

560,087

2012/06/27

H-shares Index Options

115,258

2014/12/05

1,606,247

2015/05/27

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

86,812

2011/08/09

21,682

2011/06/17

Mini H-shares Index Futures

60,341

2015/04/20

16,436

2014/12/11

Stock Futures

27,966

2007/03/28

47,050

2013/03/27

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

20,802

2012/05/24

95,673

2013/11/19

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

13,917

2012/05/18

32,651

2012/05/29