SINGAPORE, Oct 4, 2011 - (ACN Newswire) - Singapore Exchange (SGX) said derivatives and commodities activity rose while securities trading fell in September from a year earlier.
Securities
- Turnover fell 21% year on year to $30 billion, in line with global markets, due to economic and fiscal uncertainties. Securities daily average value was $1.4 billion, down 25% from a year earlier.
- However, exchange traded fund turnover more than doubled from a year earlier to $1.1 billion and structured warrants trading more than doubled to $928 million.
Derivatives
- Total volume increased 33% year on year to 7.2 million contracts; derivatives daily average volume was 349,378 contracts.
- Nifty futures volume was 64% higher from a year earlier at 1.5 million contracts.
- MSCI Singapore futures volume was 53% up at 457,321 contracts while MSCI Taiwan futures volume was 42% up at 1.7 million contracts over the same period. China A50 futures trading was active at 281,680 contracts but was down 6% from August
Commodities and Clearing
- SICOM rubber futures trading rose 62% year on year to 24,512 contracts following the migration of the contracts onto the SGX platform in May.
- Volume of OTC commodity contracts cleared rose 51% from a year earlier to 18,601 contracts.
- Volume of Iron Ore Swaps cleared tripled from a year earlier to 7,957 contracts.
- Clearing of OTC Interest Rate Swaps continued to grow with a notional $4.4 billion cleared in September, bringing the cumulative amount cleared since launch to $169 billion notional.
SGX Statistics At A Glance
Aug 2011 Sep 2011
Number of Trading Days (Securities) 21 22
Securities market Turnover Volume (mil shares) 33,043 23,089
Securities market Turnover Value ($mil) 41,421 29,860
Securities Daily Average ($mil) 1,972 1,357
Derivatives Volume 8,096,266 7,196,335
Derivatives Daily Average Volume 360,282 349,378
Total Number of Listed Securities 775 773
Total Market Capitalisation 819,845 774,376
Contact:
Carolyn Lim
Communications
Tel: +65 6236 8139
Email: carolyn.lim@sgx.com
Loh Wei Ling
Communications
Tel: +65 6236 8157
Email: loh.weiling@sgx.com
Topic: Production report
Source: Singapore Exchange (SGX)
Sectors: Daily Finance, Daily News
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