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- Trading turnover in the first five months: CHF 635.0 billion (+30.7% versus the same period in the prior year of 2014)
- Average trading turnover per day since the start of the year: CHF 6.4 billion
- Increases in equity and bond indices
Since the start of 2015, a total of 22,104,756 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange. This marks a year-on-year increase of 38.8%. There have been 20,992,047 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to an increase of 40.4%. 224,235 trades (+1.7%) were conducted in the CHF bonds segment.
Since the start of 2015, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 30.7% in total to CHF 635.0 billion. Turnover therefore averaged CHF 6.4 billion per day. This increase is primarily attributable to turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs (+32.7%) segment. Turnover in CHF bonds actually increased by 38.2% to CHF 92.1 billion. Meanwhile, turnover in structured products and warrants fell by 10.8% to CHF 11.5 billion.
May 2015 saw a total of 3,807,071 trades with a turnover of CHF 100.5 billion, an increase of 2.1% versus the prior month. However, there was a slight decline in turnover of 3.1%. Nonetheless, it is important to note that May had two trading days fewer than April (18 versus 20). Furthermore, in comparison with May 2014 there was an increase of 18.9%.
The performance of the equities including funds + ETPs segment was as follows: there were 3,629,599 trades, a rise of 2.8% on the previous month, with turnover down by 2.8% to CHF 78.4 billion. Trading turnover in ETFs fell by 7.6% to CHF 6.9 billion, with the number of trades declining by 12.9% to 75,913. In structured products and warrants, turnover was up 1.0% to CHF 1.9 billion despite the volume of trades falling by 5.8% to 66,255. CHF bond trades were down by 10.1% to 34,086, with turnover falling by 2.9% to CHF 12.2 billion.
29 new CHF bond issues (+3.6%) and 3,479 new structured products and warrants (+15.4%) were admitted to trading in May. In all, 132 new CHF bonds (-4.3%) and 19,925 new structured products and warrants (+15.8%) have therefore been listed since the start of the year.
The performance of the most important equity indices was as follows in May 2015: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 9,237.8 points at the end of May (+1.8% month-on-month, +2.8% versus end-2014). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,380.9 points (+2.4%/+3.8%) and the broader-based SPI® at 9,377.5 points (+1.8%/+5.9%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was up versus April (+0.3%/+2.0% compared with end-2014) at 134.8 points.
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