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HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - September 2015

Date 07/10/2015

Highlights

- Securities Market

  • The average daily turnover for the first nine months of 2015 was $117.2 billion, an increase of 78 per cent when compared with $65.7 billion for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of ETFs for the first nine months of 2015 was $10.2 billion, an increase of 191 per cent when compared with $3.5 billion for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of derivative warrants for the first nine months of 2015 was $20.2 billion, an increase of 159 per cent when compared with $7.8 billion for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of CBBCs for the first nine months of 2015 was $7.2 billion, an increase of 50 per cent when compared with $4.8 billion for the same period last year.
  • Funds raised through IPOs for the first nine months of 2015 was $156.4 billion, an increase of 19 per cent when compared with $131.4 billion for the same period last year.
  • Total funds raised for the first nine months of 2015 was $851.1 billion, an increase of 39 per cent when compared with $611.4 billion for the same period last year.

  

- Derivatives Market

  • The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first nine months of 2015 was 812,043 contracts, an increase of 51 per cent when compared with the 536,593 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of stock options for the first nine months of 2015 was 419,937 contracts, an increase of 51 per cent when compared with the 277,324 contracts for the same period last year.
  • The average daily turnover of equity index futures for the first nine months of 2015 was 289,357 contacts, an increase of 52 per cent when compared with the 189,764 contacts for the same period last year.
  • On 4 and 25 September 2015, the turnover and the open interest of H-shares Index Options reached record highs of 188,957 contracts and 2,618,350 contracts respectively.
  • On 25 September 2015, the open interest of H-shares Index Futures reached a record high of 467,083 contracts.

 

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

 

Sep 2015

Sep 2014

End 2014

No. of listed companies

 1,816

1,721

 1,752

Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)

23,190.1

24,428.3

25,071.8

No. of newly listed companies *

9

5

122

No. of listed securities

10,221

9,155

9,060

No. of equity warrants

14

7

10

No. of derivatives warrants

5,633

4,794

4,938

No. of CBBCs

1,871

1,918

1,579

No. of unit trusts

143

133

134

No. of debt securities

736

578

640

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

 

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

 

Sep 2015

Aug 2015

% Change

Monthly turnover ($Mil.) *

1,642,300

1,979,765

-17.0%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) *

82,115

94,275

-12.9%

No. of trading days

20

21

-

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

 

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

 

Sep 2015
($Mil)

Aug 2015
($Mil)

% Change

Equities

1,050,527.05
(64.0%)

1,295,095.64
(65.4%)

-18.9%

Derivative warrants

306,461.96
(18.7%)

358,560.87
(18.1%)

-14.5%

CBBCs

167,545.32
(10.2%)

159,248.65
(8.0%)

5.2%

Unit Trusts
(include ETFs)

116,959.69
(7.1%)

163,202.25
(8.2%)

-28.3%

( ) % 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 September 2015 was $18,530 million (1.1 % of the securities market total turnover).

 

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

 

Sep 2015

Sep 2014

End 2014

No. of H shares

 212

195

202

No. of Red chips Stocks

144

 130

133

No. of Mainland private enterprises

 564

532

541

Market capitalisation (% of market total)

61.9%

59.0%

60.1%

Turnover value (% of equity turnover)

70.8%

68.3%

70.7%

 

Index Performance
Month-end figures

 

Sep 2015

% Change
over 1 Month

% Change
over 12 Months

S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index

25563.43

-4.2%

-8.3%

S&P/HKEx GEM Index

461.58

-0.4%

-9.0%

Hang Seng Index

20846.30

-3.8%

-9.1%

Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#

9405.50

-3.4%

-8.8%

Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*

3901.65

-3.5%

-11.4%

CES China 120 Index ^

4530.49

-3.6%

14.3%

CES China HK Mainland Index +

5182.26

-3.7%

-6.2%

# - 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)

Sep 2015

Aug 2015

% Change

Total Futures

324,424

311,557

4.1%

Hang Seng Index Futures

91,237

77,667

17.5%

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

52,087

45,772

13.8%

H-shares Index Futures

144,370

151,290

-4.6%

Mini H-shares Index Futures

31,296

31,623

-1.0%

HSI Dividend Point Index Futures

38

43

-11.6%

HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures

1,753

752

133.1%

HSI Volatility Index Futures

0

2

-100.0%

CES China 120 Index Futures

16

27

-40.7%

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

2,007

2,212

-9.3%

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 

1,448

2,020

-28.3%

London Aluminium Mini Futures

34

33

3.0%

London Zinc Mini Futures

48

45

6.7%

London Copper Mini Futures

91

71

28.2%

Total Options

459,496

493,393

-6.9%

Hang Seng Index Options

29,289

32,111

-8.8%

Mini Hang Seng Index Options

4,095

4,341

-5.7%

Flexible Hang Seng Index Options

40

24

66.7%

H-shares Index Options

95,755

77,271

23.9%

Flexible H-shares Index Options

20

203

-90.1%

Stock Options

330,297

379,443

-13.0%

Total Futures and Options

783,920

804,950

-2.6%

* Trading in 3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures suspended with effect from 14 Sep 2015

 

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)

Sep 2015

Aug 2015

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,277,636

1,385,606

-7.79%

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

92,304

97,285

-5.12%

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

288

380

-24.21%

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

99.95

99.92

N/A

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


74.44
56.13


73.91
55.40


N/A
N/A

DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)

Sep 2015

Aug 2015

% Change

Month-end Open Interest (contracts)

 

 

 

–  Equity Index Futures

548,207

550,528

-0.4%

–  Stock Futures

17,768

16,889

5.2%

–  Interest Rates Futures

3

22

-86.4%

–  RMB Currency Futures

15,645

14,158

10.5%

–  London Metal Mini Futures

319

397

-19.6%

–  Equity Index Options

2,461,836

2,375,943

3.6%

–  Stock Options

6,679,004

8,193,821

-18.5%

 

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market

Sep 2015
YTD

Sep 2014
YTD

% Change

No. of newly listed companies #

84

89

-5.6%

Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.) ^

117,181

65,679

78.4%

Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)

219,532

133,444

64.5%

Average no. of trades per trading day

1,546,809

1,029,933

50.2%

Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)

156,377

131,379

19.0%

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

851,117

611,391

39.2%

Derivatives Market

Sep 2015
YTD

Sep 2014
YTD

% Change

Average daily volume (contracts)

 

 

 

– Equity Index Futures

289,357

189,764

52.5%

– Stock Futures

3,330

1,651

101.7%

– Interest Rates Futures

1

0

-

– RMB Currency Futures

974

820

18.8%

– Gold Futures ~

0

0

-

– London Metal Mini Futures +

213

-

-

– Equity Index Options

98,232

67,033

46.5%

– Stock Options

419,937

277,324

51.4%

Clearing & Settlement

Sep 2015 YTD

Sep 2014
YTD

% Change

Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS

1,496,045

1,029,273

45.35%

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

104,554

87,424

19.59%

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

501

386

29.79%

# 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 Gold Futures suspended with effect from 27 May 2015
+ Trading in London Metal Mini Futures commenced on 01 Dec 2014

 

Historical Records
up to 30 September 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

2015/07/08

237,429,139,110

6

2015/04/10

222,888,834,174

7

2015/04/15

218,018,391,899

8

2015/04/17

215,953,404,099

9

2015/07/06

214,812,393,078

10

2015/07/09

213,825,663,405

 

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

2015/06/01

31,107,316,498,262

10

2015/04/30

30,995,152,430,547

 

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

467,559

2015/08/26

467,083

2015/09/25

Hang Seng Index Futures

271,426

2013/06/25

198,789

2007/06/27

H-shares Index Options

188,957

2015/09/04

2,618,350

2015/09/25

Hang Seng Index Options

116,835

2011/08/05

560,087

2012/06/27

Mini Hang Seng Index Futures

94,001

2015/08/25

21,682

2011/06/17

Mini H-shares Index Futures

74,511

2015/07/08

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