OREANDA-NEWS. 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.