HKEx Publishes Market Statistics 2015
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) published a set of market statistics for the full year of 2015 on its website today (Thursday).
Major record highs (previous record highs are in brackets)
- Securities market capitalisation: $31.6 trillion on 26 May 2015 ($26.5 trillion on 4 Sep 2014)
- Total securities market turnover: $26.1 trillion ($21.7 trillion in 2007)
- Average daily turnover of securities market: $105.6 billion ($88.1 billion in 2007)
- ETF turnover: $2.2 trillion ($1.2 trillion in 2014)
- Number of newly-listed companies: 138 (122 in 2014)
- IPO and post-IPO fundraising: $1.1 trillion ($942.7 billion in 2014)
- Post-IPO fundraising: $847.7 billion ($710.2 billion in 2014)
- Total turnover of futures and options: 189,824,363 contracts (142,439,039 contracts in 2014)
- Turnover of RMB Currency Futures - USD/CNH Futures: 262,433 contracts (205,049 contracts in 2014)
- Open interest of all futures and options: 13,968,838 contracts on 25 Sep 2015 (12,873,922 contracts on 29 Dec 2014)
Other securities market highlights
- IPO fundraising was US$33.7 billion, the world's highest, according to data from Dealogic
- Securitised derivatives (derivative warrants and CBBCs) turnover was the world's highest for the ninth consecutive year, according to data from the World Federation of Exchanges.
- The average daily turnover of Northbound and Southbound trading under Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect was RMB6.4 billion and $3.4 billion respectively.
Other derivatives market highlights
- January-December trading volume of H-shares Index Futures, Mini H-shares Index Futures, Stock Futures, H-shares Index Options, Flexible H-shares Index Options and Stock Options reached new highs.
Commodities market highlights
LME nickel trading was up 6.9 per cent from 2014, with record volume of 20.7 million lots.
Total LME volume was 169.6 million lots, down 4.3 per cent from 2014. This is equivalent to US$11.9 trillion and 3.8 billion tonnes of material.
Year-end LME futures market open interest was at 2.3 million lots, up 2 per cent from 2014.
Year-end LME market share of global exchange-traded metals futures was 76.3 per cent.
For more details, please visit theHKEx andLMEwebsites.
Notes
$: Hong Kong dollars
US$/USD: US dollars
CNH: Offshore Renminbi
New listings include transfers from Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) to Main Board
IPO: Initial public offering
ETF: Exchange Traded Fund
CBBC: Callable Bull/Bear Contract
#Turnover from January to November 2015 (latest available figures)
Securities market: Products traded on Main Board and GEM
Derivatives market: Futures and options traded at HKEx
Commodities market: Commodities traded at London Metal Exchange
Some figures have been rounded
Ends
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