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Since the beginning of 2013, a total of 11,637,574 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach CH. This marks an increase of 4.9% on the previous year. At 10,817,071 trades, the equities including funds + ETPs segment (+5.2%) also posted growth. With 333,302 trades, the ETF segment was also 22.1% up on the previous year.
Since the start of 2013, the total trading volume in all securities has risen by 10.2% to CHF 358.6 billion. The primary contributors to this increase have been growing turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs (+16.4%) and ETF (+24.6%) segments. There has been a clear decline in turnover in structured products and warrants versus last year, with volumes down 12.3% to CHF 10.2 billion, and in CHF bonds, in which turnover has fallen by 12.0% to CHF 57.5 billion.
A total of 3,155,957 trades (+11.8% versus March) were conducted in April, generating turnover of CHF 93.5 billion (+3.8%). At 2,935,513, the number of trades in equities including funds + ETPs was also up (+11.6%) on the March total. Trading turnover in ETFs rose by 39.8% to CHF 9.3 billion, and the number of trades was up by 33.4% to 97,359. In structured products and warrants, volumes fell by 6.4% to CHF 2.5 billion, but the number of transactions increased by 9.2% to 83,008. Trades in CHF bonds were down to 38,737 (-4.4%), with volumes falling to CHF 10.9 billion (-19.5%).
A total of 35 new CHF bond issues (+34.6%) and 4,546 new structured products and warrants (+38.3%) were admitted to trading in April. In all, this means that 113 new CHF bonds (-9.6%) and 16,166 new structured products and warrants (-3.1%) have been listed since the start of the year.
The most relevant equity indices again trended higher in April 2013: the blue chip SMI® index closed the month at 7,906.2 points (+1.2% compared with the prior month, +15.9% versus end-2012), the SLI Swiss Leader Index® PR came in at 1,186.9 points (+1.3% month-on-month, +14.4% versus end-2012) and the broader-based SPI® stood at 7,424.9 points (+2.5% versus the previous month, +18.0% compared with end-2012).
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