HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

- Securities Market

The average daily turnover for the first nine months of 2008 was $79,255 million, an increase of 9 per cent when compared with $72,423 million for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first nine months of 2008 was $17,079 million, an increase of 23 per cent when compared with $13,832 million for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first nine months of 2008 was $3,586 million, an increase of 2,443 per cent when compared with $141 million for the same period last year.

- Derivatives Market

The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first nine months of 2008 was 431,981 contracts, an increase of 30 per cent when compared with the same period last year, when it was 332,056 contracts.
On 18 September 2008, the turnover of Mini H-shares Index Futures and H-shares Index Options reached a record high of 2,552 and 39,016 contracts respectively.
On 26 September 2008 , the total open interest of Mini Hang Seng Index Options reached a record high of 5,568 contracts.

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

	Sep 2008	Sep 2007	End 2007
No. of listed companies	1,259	1,210	1,241
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	12,548	20,055	20,698
No. of newly listed companies	0	5	84
No. of listed securities	6,210	4,851	6,092
No. of equity warrants	41	30	33
No. of derivatives warrants	3,941	3,344	4,483
No. of CBBC	759	62	131
No. of unit trusts	33	26	26
No. of debt securities	174	175	175

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Sep 2008	Aug 2008	% Change
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,419,970	1,129,294	26%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	67,618	59,437	14%
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

	Sep 2008	Sep 2007	End 2007
No. of H shares	151	143	146
No. of Red chips Stocks	93	90	93
No. of NHMPE	209	151	200
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	55.0%	58.1%	58.2%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	70.1%	72.4%	69.3%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Sep 2008	% Change over 1 Month	% Change over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	22176.53	-14.9%	-32.5%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	551.92	-20.1%	-63.6%
Hang Seng Index	18016.21	-15.3%	-33.6%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	9070.31	-22.2%	-46.7%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3470.00	-16.9%	-40.2%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Sep 2008	Aug 2008	% Change
Total Futures	214,807	185,322	15.9%
Hang Seng Index Futures	104,667	96,008	9.0%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	36,812	32,196	14.3%
H-shares Index Futures	69,754	54,818	27.2%
Mini H-shares Index Futures	1,508	1,196	26.1%
Hang Seng China H-Financials Index Futures	0	0	-
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Future	0	0	-
Stock Futures	1,995	1,011	97.3%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	66	93	-29.0%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	5	0	-
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Total Options	306,739	223,699	37.1%
Hang Seng Index Options	20,669	17,115	20.8%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	961	916	4.9%
H-shares Index Options	9,698	5,600	73.2%
FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Option	0	0	-
Stock Options	275,411	200,069	37.7%
Total Futures and Options	521,546	409,021	27.5%

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Sep 2008	Aug 2008	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	575,962	460,941	24.95%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	63,417	55,119	15.05%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	681	339	100.88%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.50	99.88	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository - % of total issued shares - % of the total market capitalisation	74.53% 44.18%	74.18% 44.86%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Sep 2008	Aug 2008	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
- Equity Index Futures	189,365	202,604	-6.5%
- Stock Futures	8,269	7,592	8.9%
- Interest Rates Futures	2,301	2,738	-16.0%
- Equity Index Options	174,198	161,008	8.2%
- Stock Options	4,675,934	5,558,479	-15.9%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Sep 2008 YTD	Sep 2007 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies	30	52	-42%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	79,255	72,423	9%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	124,033	76,061	63%
Average no. of trades per trading day	561,712	560,734	0.2%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	62,331	158,987	-61%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	175,274	332,719	-47%
Derivatives Market	Sep 2008 YTD	Sep 2007 YTD	% Change
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
- Equity Index Futures	175,958	120,630	45.9%
- Stock Futures	908	1,549	-41.4%
- Interest Rates Futures	108	131	-17.6%
- Equity Index Options	22,462	41,355	-45.7%
- Stock Options	232,545	168,392	38.1%
Clearing & Settlement	Sep 2008 YTD	Sep 2007 YTD	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	561,700	560,730	0.17%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	63,713	61,077	4.32%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	532	910	-41.54%

* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 30 September 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 - September 2008