HKEx Group Publishes Market Statistics 2014

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) Group published a set of market statistics for the full year of 2014 on its website today (Thursday).

Major record highs
(previous record highs are in brackets)

• New Main Board listings: 96 (94 in 2010)
   
• New listings (Main Board and GEM): 122 (117 in 2002)
   
• Fundraising through post-IPO share sales: $708 bil ($409 bil in 2010)
   
• Fundraising through IPOs and post-IPO share sales: $936 bil ($859 bil in 2010)
   
• ETF turnover: $1.2 tril ($903.1 bil in 2013)
   
• Derivatives market turnover: 142.4 mil contracts (140.5 mil in 2011)
   
• Derivatives market open interest: 12.9 mil contracts on 29 Dec (10.4 mil on 28 Sep 2011)
   
• Commodities market trading: 177.2 mil lots transacted, equivalent to US$14.9 tril and 4.0 bil tonnes of material (171.1 mil lots transacted, equivalent to US$14.6 tril and 4.0 bil tonnes of material in 2013).

Other securities market highlights

• IPO fundraising rose 34 per cent from 2013 to US$29.3 bil, the world’s second highest total, according to data from Dealogic (HKEx’s securities market has been in the world’s top five in IPO fundraising every year since 2002).
   
• Market capitalisation exceeded $26 tril for the first time and reached an all-time high of $26.5 tril on 4 September 2014.
   
• Securitised derivatives (derivative warrants and CBBCs) turnover^# was the world’s largest for the eighth consecutive year.
   
• The average daily turnover of Northbound and Southbound trading under Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect was RMB5.6 bil and HK$929 mil respectively between the programme’s launch on 17 Nov and 31 Dec*.

Other derivatives market highlights

• January-December trading volume of H-shares Index Options, Mini H-shares Index Futures, HSCEI Dividend Point Index Futures (another H-shares product), Renminbi Currency Futures - USD/CNH Futures and Flexible H-shares Index Options reached new highs.

Other commodities market highlights

• Average daily volume rose 4 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 700,204 lots.
   
• Aluminium trading rose 3 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 68.8 mil lots.
   
• Zinc trading rose 2 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 31.8 mil lots.
   
• Nickel trading rose 39 per cent from 2013 to a new high of 19.4 mil lots.
   
• At year-end, London Metal Exchange's market share was 82 per cent of global exchange-traded metals futures. 
   

For more details, please visit the HKEx and LMEwebsites.

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