Key figures SIX Swiss Exchange and Scoach Switzerland: May 2011

The ETF segment recorded especially strong growth in May 2011. Here, the turnover surged by 21.5% to CHF 8.3 billion and the number of trades by 19.5% to 81,549. In terms of transactions, this trails only March 2001 as heaviest trading month ever, and the third best in terms of turnover in that segment. For the first five months of the year, turnover (+30.5%) as well as the number of transactions (+35.8%) increased sharply, thereby exceeding even the record-high readings set in 2010.

The Structured Products and Warrants segment also demonstrated gratifying growth: compared to the previous month, turnover rose by 20.5% to CHF 6.0 billion and the total number of transactions by 11.1% to 116,138. As a result, the turnover readings are back at levels not seen since 2008.

In May, turnover in Equities incl. Funds, ETSFs and ETPs segment also increased by an impressive 13.5% to CHF 73.9 billion, while the number of trades rose by 16.6% to 2,918,026. Here, a 3.0% gain has been recorded versus the first five months of last year.

The major stock indices put in a mixed performance for May 2011: the blue chip SMI® index closed out the month at 6,554.7 (+0.2% vs. April 2011 and +1.8% ytd), the SLI Swiss Leader Index® PR at 1,022.3 (-1.6% vs. April and +0.5% ytd) and the broadly based SPI® at 6,023.0 (+0.2% vs. April and +4.0% ytd).

In May 2011, a total of 4,907 new structured products and warrants (+56.2%) as well as 31 new CHF bonds were admitted to trading (-8.8%). With Hochdorf Holding Ltd. and Autoneum Holding Ltd., two new companies were listed on SIX Swiss Exchange.