SIX Swiss Exchange - July 2017: Growth Over Previous Year

There has been a year-on-year increase in trading activity on SIX Swiss Exchange. Trading turnover was up by 5.9% to CHF 824.7 billion in the first seven months of 2017. This trend was also reflected in the number of transactions, which rose by 4.2% to 30'109'594. Turnover averaged CHF 5.7 billion per trading day over this period.

There were 4'166'288 transactions on SIX Swiss Exchange last month, generating trading turnover of CHF 102.2 billion. This equates to a month-on-month decrease of 15.0% in terms of turnover and 5.4% in the number of trades. In July, the segment equities including funds + ETPs saw 4'008'892 trades, which represented a month-on-month decrease of 5.3%, while turnover was down by 16.5% to CHF 80.4 billion.

Largest IPO on SIX Swiss Exchange since 2006

SIX Swiss Exchange welcomed two new companies in July. With the Landis+Gyr IPO on 21 July, SIX Swiss Exchange hosted two of the three biggest European IPOs this year. In addition, Shares in Zur Rose Group AG were traded on SIX Swiss Exchange for the first time on 6 July. This means that five companies have started trading their shares to the public on the Swiss stock exchange since the start of 2017.

In the area of indices, SIX Swiss Exchange has met a broad market need by expanding the SXI Real Estate® index family with the launch of the SXI Real Estate All Shares Index. Furthermore, July saw the launch of the SPI 20, a non-capped blue chip index for the 20 largest and most liquid stocks on the Swiss equity market.

More detailed figures are available in the statistical monthly report[PDF]. The SIX Swiss Exchange website provides daily figures for volume and turnover.