- Trading turnover in August: CHF 107.3 billion (+3.2% month-on-month)
- Trading turnover since the start of the year: CHF 964.0 billion (+30.0% year-on-year)
- Average trading turnover per day since the start of the year: CHF 5.8 billion
Trading turnover on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange rose by 3.2% month-on- month to CHF 107.3 billion in August 2015. This represents an impressive increase of 40.9% compared with August 2014. The number of trades increased by 2.5% compared with the previous month (4,236,299 trades).
In August, 4,030,180 trades were carried out in the equities including funds + ETPs segment (+2.3%), with trading turnover of CHF 85.6 billion (+3.0%). Trading in ETFs rose particularly significantly, with the number of trades up 3.4% (91,138) and a 6.2% increase in trading turnover (CHF 8.5 billion). Turnover in structured products and warrants decreased by 2.6% to CHF 1.9 billion, despite a 15.2% increase in the number of trades (82,386). The number of CHF bond trades was down by 4.1% (31,521), while turnover rose by 3.9% to CHF 10.1 billion.
Since the start of 2015, trading turnover across all securities has risen by 30.0% in total to CHF 964.0 billion. Turnover has therefore averaged CHF 5.8 billion per day. This is primarily attributable to turnover in the equities including funds + ETPs segment (+35.1% to CHF 736.4 billion). However, the other segments also registered growth: turnover in CHF bonds climbed by 16.7% to CHF 125.5 billion, ETF turnover rose by 15.4% to CHF 70.7 billion, and turnover in structured products and warrants increased by 15.3% to CHF 21.3 billion. A total of 34,733,044 trades have been conducted since the start of the year. This marks a year-on- year increase of 38.4%.
14 new CHF bond issues (+7.7%) and 3,520 new structured products and warrants (–7.2%) were admitted to trading in August. In all, 194 new CHF bonds (–14.2%) and 30,834 new structured products and warrants (+17.7%) have therefore been listed since the start of the year.
The most important equity indices trended lower in August 2015: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 8,824.6 points at the end of August (–6.4% month-on-month, –1.8% versus end-2014). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,306.7 points (–7.2%/–1.8%) and the broader-based SPI® at 8,984.6 points
(–6.0% /+1.4%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was up versus July (+0.2%/+1.9% compared with end-2014) at 134.7 points.
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