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SINGAPORE, Apr 5, 2012 - (ACN Newswire) - Singapore Exchange's (SGX) derivatives trading continued to grow in March but securities market activity declined.
Securities
- Daily average value was down 27% from February at $1.3 billion and 19% lower year on year.
- Exchange traded funds turnover grew 48% to $622 million from February but was down 42% year on year.
- Structured warrants volume grew 12% to 5.7 billion units from February, and more than doubled from a year earlier.
Derivatives
- Daily average volume grew 9% to 353,683 contracts compared with February but slid 7% year-on-year.
- China A50 futures volume more than tripled to 661,587 contracts from a year earlier, MSCI Taiwan futures trading grew 9% year on year to 1.6 million contracts and S&P Nifty futures volume also increased 9% from a year earlier to 1.3 million contracts. Nikkei 225 futures volume was 3.1 million contracts, down 37% from the spike in activity a year earlier caused by high volatility in the Japanese equity markets. Compared with February, Nikkei 225 futures trading grew 29%.
Commodities and clearing
- Trading of SICOM rubber futures eased 2% year on year to 18,235 contracts.
- Volume of OTC commodity contracts cleared more than doubled to 23,808 contracts from a year earlier. Volume of iron ore swaps cleared almost tripled to 11,625 contracts from a year earlier.
- OTC interest rate swaps cleared totalled a notional $213 billion since the November 2010 launch; volume of new deals cleared in March was $9.0 billion, up 55% year-on-year.
Fixed Income
- Bond listings more than doubled to $25 billion from a year earlier and grew 53% from February.
- The biggest listings were Mizuho Corporate Bank's US$1.5 billion 2017 senior notes, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation's US$1.5 billion 2022 bonds and Genting Singapore's $1.8 billion perpetual bonds.
Contact:
Carolyn Lim
Communications
Tel: +65-6236-8139
Email: carolyn.lim@sgx.com
Joan Lew
Communications
Tel: +65-6236-8658
Email: joan@sgx.com
Topic: Press release summary
Source: Singapore Exchange (SGX)
Sectors: Daily Finance, Daily News
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