- Strong start to the year continuing: trading turnover of CHF 209.2 billion (+19.5% versus the same period in 2013)
- Average trading turnover per day of CHF 5.1 billion
- Equity indices stronger across the board
Since the start of 2014, a total of 6,703,273 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange. This marks a year-on-year increase of 18.5%. There have been 6,285,455 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to a rise of 19.7%. The ETF segment has also posted strong growth. There have been 173,975 transactions in this segment in total,6.8% more than in the corresponding period last year.
Since the start of 2014, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 19.5% overall to CHF 209.2 billion.This equates to an average daily turnover of around CHF 5.1 billion. Turnover figures in the equities including funds + ETPs (+26.8%), ETFs (+36.6%) and structured products and warrants (+27.2%) segments have been the main contributors to this increase. Turnover in CHF bonds has fallen by 21.3% to CHF 26.0 billion.
February 2014 saw a total of 3,104,854 trades with a turnover of CHF 95.1 billion, a decrease of 16.7% versus January. The volume of trades was down by 13.7%. However, it should be remembered that February had one trading day fewer than January (20 as opposed to 21).
There were 2,909,944 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, a month-on-month decline of 13.8%. As a result, turnover dropped to CHF 70.9 billion (down 13.1% on the previous month). Trading turnover in ETFs fell by 33.3% to CHF 9.0 billion, and the number of trades was down by 17.4% to 78,693. Instructured products and warrants, turnover was down by 19.8% to CHF 2.9 billion and the number of transactions fell by 11.2% to 71,141. CHF bond trades were down by 1.9% to 43,437, with turnover falling by 17.8% to CHF 11.7 billion.
41 new CHF bond issues (+241.7% month-on-month) and 3,141 new structured products and warrants (- 20.0% versus the previous month) were admitted to trading in February. In all, this means that 53 new CHF bonds (+1.9% month-on-month) and 7,065 new structured products and warrants (-15.2% versus the priormonth) have been listed since the start of the year.
The leading equity indices trended slightly higher in February 2014: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 8,475.3 points at the end of February (+3.5% month-on-month,+3.3% versus end-2013). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,300.2 points (+3.7%/3.4%) and the broader-based SPI® at 8,160.4 points (+4.2%/+4.1%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was more or less unchanged versus January (0.0%/+1.6% compared with end-2013) at 125.7 points.
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