HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

- Securities Market

The securities market turnover for October 2007 reached a single-month record high of $3,487,326 million while average daily turnover of $166,063 million was also the highest in history.
On 3 October 2007, the securities market turnover reached a record high of $210,506 million.
On 16 October 2007, the derivative warrants turnover reached a record high of $49,961 million.
On 29 October 2007, the securities market capitalisation reached $23,071 billion, exceeding $23 trillion for the first time. It reached an all-time closing high of $23,197 billion on 30 October 2007.
On 30 October 2007, the Hang Seng Index reached a record closing high of 31638.22.
On 30 October 2007, the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (H-shares Index) reached a record closing high of 20400.07.

- Derivatives Market

On 29 October 2007, the total open interest for all futures and options reached a record high of 8,824,743 contracts.

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

	Oct 2007	Oct 2006	End 2006
No. of listed companies	1,220	1,160	1,173
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	23,070	11,393	13,338
No. of newly listed companies	10	9	62
No. of listed securities	5,562	3,057	3,383
No. of equity warrants	30	29	28
No. of derivatives warrants	4,013	1,644	1,959
No. of CBBC	96	34	24
No. of unit trusts	26	13	15
No. of debt securities	173	174	180

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Oct 2007	Sep 2007	% Change
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	3,487,326	2,083,138	67%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	166,063	109,639	51%
No. of trading days	21	19	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

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

	Oct 2007	Oct 2006	End 2006
No. of H shares	144	134	141
No. of Red chips Stocks	91	90	90
No. of NHMPE	162	131	136
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	60.1%	46.2%	50.3%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	76.0%	63.7%	60.0%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Oct 2007	% Change over 1 Month	% Change YTD
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	38148.39	16.1%	79.4%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	1515	0.0%	33.2%
Hang Seng Index	31352.58	15.5%	71.1%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	20081.75	18.0%	168.3%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	6961.79	20.0%	138.0%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Oct 2007	Sep 2007	% Change
Total Futures	176,107	143,386	22.8%
Hang Seng Index Futures	83,594	72,807	14.8%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	28,629	18,955	51.0%
H-shares Index Futures	62,404	50,284	24.1%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures¹	0	1	-100.0%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	5	4	25.0%
Stock Futures	1,376	1,258	9.4%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	96	76	26.3%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	3	1	200.0%
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	321,668	277,416	16.0%
Hang Seng Index Options	23,883	26,634	-10.3%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	261	167	56.3%
H-shares Index Options	4,858	10,034	-51.6%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	0	1	-100.0%
Stock Options	292,667	240,579	21.7%
Total Futures and Options	497,776	420,801	18.3%

¹Trading in Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures commenced on 16 Apr 2007 .

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Oct 2007	Sep 2007	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	937,825	703,168	33.37%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	93,651	75,191	24.55%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	1,232	987	24.82%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.66	99.70	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	72.69% 47.89%	69.00% 45.96%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Oct 2007	Sep 2007	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	220,804	218,652	1.0%
- Stock Futures	11,001	8,596	28.0%
- Interest Rates Futures	6,224	5,977	4.1%
- Equity Index Options	443,176	449,440	-1.4%
- Stock Options	6,864,969	5,435,153	26.3%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Oct 2007 YTD	Oct 2006 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	62	46	35%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	82,015	31,056	164%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	81,294	36,541	122%
Average no. of trades per trading day	599,364	236,127	154%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	203,823	274,969	-26%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	389,271	414,943	-6%
Derivatives Market	Oct 2007 YTD	Oct 2006 YTD	% Change
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	126,162	77,529	62.7%
- Stock Futures	1,531	352	334.9%
- Interest Rates Futures	128	61	109.8%
- Equity Index Options	40,089	19,170	109.1%
- Stock Options	181,122	65,297	177.4%
Clearing & Settlement	Oct 2007 YTD	Oct 2006 YTD	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	599,359	236,123	153.83%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	64,414	34,531	86.54%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	943	542	73.99%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 October 2007

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 - October 2007