SGX securities turnover value falls 4% to S$25.6b in June

TOTAL market turnover value on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) slid 4 per cent on the year to S$25.6 billion in June, as total market turnover volume tumbled 28 per cent to 32.3 billion securities.

Month on month, the total market turnover value dropped 10.4 per cent, but the total market turnover volume rose 2 per cent in June, according to SGX’s monthly market statistics report released on Tuesday (Jul 12).

The latest figures bring turnover value for the January to June 2022 period to S$170 billion, up 13 per cent from the July to December 2021 period, the bourse operator noted.

Securities daily average value was at S$1.2 billion in June, 4 per cent lower year on year and 22.6 per cent down month on month. This comes as securities daily average volume fell 28 per cent on the year to 1.4 billion securities, and shrunk 11.3 per cent on the month.

The benchmark Straits Times Index is down 4 per cent year on year to 3,102.21 in June 2022, and down 4 per cent month on month.

The market turnover value of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) was nearly flat at S$374 million in June 2022, from S$373 million in the year-ago period. ETF market turnover volume, however, grew 109 per cent to 245 million shares, from 151 million shares in June 2021.

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Turnover for the January to June 2022 period was up 3 per cent from the July to December 2021 period.

Notably, derivatives-traded volume grew 24 per cent year on year to 23.5 million contracts in June, the highest in 3 months. In the first half of 2022, volume was up 13 per cent to 116.7 million contracts, from the July to December 2021 period.

SGX shares closed S$0.04 or 0.4 per cent higher at S$9.64 on Tuesday.