- Trading turnover since the start of 2015: CHF 534.3 billion (+33.1% versus the same period in the prior year of 2014)
- Number of trades since the start of 2015: 18,297,635 (+39.9% versus the prior year period)
- Average trading turnover per day of CHF 6.5 billion
Since the start of 2015, a total of 18,297,635 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange. This marks a year-on-year increase of 39.9%. There have been 17,362,426 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, equating to an increase of 41.4%.
190,142 trades (+6.7%) were conducted in the CHF bonds segment.
Since the start of 2015, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 33.1% in total to CHF 534.3 billion. Turnover therefore averaged CHF 6.5 billion per day. This increase is primarily attributable to turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs (+34.3%) segment. Turnover in CHF bonds actually increased by 49.2% to CHF 79.9 billion. Turnover in structured products and warrants fell by 13.0% to CHF 9.5 billion.
April 2015 saw a total of 3,727,370 trades with a turnover of CHF 103.5 billion, a month-on-month decline of 14.7%. Turnover was down by 20.8%. However, it is important to note that April had two trading days fewer than March (20 versus 22). In a year-on-year comparison with April 2014 (CHF 91.2 billion), April 2015 performed well, with turnover of CHF 103.5 billion (+13.4%).
With 3,530,702 trades, the equities including funds + ETPs segment underperformed the previous month's total by 14.6%, with turnover down to CHF 80.6 billion (-18.5%). Trading turnover in ETFs was down to CHF 7.3 billion (-36.2%), with the number of transactions falling to 87,190 (-15.9%). Turnover in structured products and warrants declined to CHF 1.9 billion (-35.7%). At 70,307, the number of trades was down by 18.9%. CHF bond trades were down by 15.1% to 37,891, with turnover falling by 20.3% to CHF 12.5 billion. 28 new CHF bond issues (-9.7%) and 3,016 new structured products and warrants (-15.3%) were admitted to trading in April. In all, this means that 103 new CHF bonds (-8.8%) and 16,446 new structured products and warrants (+16.4%) have been listed since the start of the year.
The performance of the most important equity indices was as follows in April 2015: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 9,077.1 points at the end of April (-0.6% month-on-month, +1.0% versus end-2014). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,348.8 points (-0.8%/+1.3%) and the broader-based SPI® at 9,208.2 points (+0.8%/+4.0%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was down versus March (-0.2%/+1.8% compared with end-2014) at 134.5 points.