Strong start to the year: trading turnover in the first quarter of CHF 310.1 billion (+17.0% versus the corresponding period last year)
- Average trading turnover per day of CHF 5.0 billion
- Varying trends in equity indices
Since the start of 2014, a total of 9,963,507 transactions have been conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange. This marks a substantial year-on-year increase of 17.5%. There were 9,340,487 trades in the equities including funds + ETPs segment, 18.5% more than in the first quarter of 2013. The ETF segment also saw significantly higher trading activity. All in all, 253,410 trades were conducted in the first quarter, equating to a rise of 7.4% compared with the first quarter of 2013.
Since the start of 2014, trading turnover across all segments has risen by 17.0% overall to CHF 310.1 billion. This equates to an average daily turnover of CHF 5.0 billion. Turnover figures in the equities including funds + ETPs (+21.7% to CHF 227.9 billion), ETF (+27.3% to CHF 29.4 billion) and structured products and warrants (+14.4% to CHF 8.9 billion) segments have been the main contributors to this increase. Turnover in CHF bonds has fallen by 11.8% to CHF 41.1 billion.
A total of 3,260,124 trades were conducted in March 2014 with a turnover of CHF 100.8 billion. This marks a month-on-month increase of 6.0% in trading turnover and 5.0% in the number of trades.
The performance of the equities including funds + ETPs segment was as follows: 3,054,963 transactions marked a 5.0% increase on the prior month's volume, while turnover was up by 6.4% to CHF 75.5 billion. In ETFs, trading turnover was down by 23.1% to CHF 6.9 billion, while the number of trades rose by 0.9% to 79,429. Despite an increase of 6.4% in the volume of trades to 75,722, turnover in structured products and warrants was down by 16.9% to CHF 2.4 billion. The number of trades in CHF bonds climbed by 11.3% to 48,382, with turnover up by 28.0% to CHF 15.0 billion.
28 new CHF bond issues (-31.7% month-on-month) and 3,493 new structured products and warrants (+11.2% versus the previous month) were admitted to trading in March. In all, this means that 81 new CHF bonds (+3.8% month-on-month) and 10,558 new structured products and warrants (-9.1% versus the corresponding period last year) have been listed since the start of the year.
The performance of the leading equity indices varied in March 2014: the blue chip SMI® index stood at 8,453.8 points at the end of March (-0.3% month-on-month, +3.1% versus end-2013). The SLI Swiss Leader Index® stood at 1,295.2 points (-0.4% / +3.0%) and the broader-based SPI® at 8,202.2 points (+0.5% / +4.7%). The SBI® AAA-BBB Total Return index was up versus February (+0.3% / +2.0% compared with end-2013) at 126.1 points.