{"id":32468,"date":"2025-07-30T02:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32468\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:51:09","slug":"hong-kong-stocks-market-capitalization-surges-33-pct-in-h1-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32468\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong stocks market capitalization surges 33 pct in H1-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" controls=\"controls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250730ccc26b82ce604e3ca62d9dedc97f3452_ChkhgeE007014_20250730_CBMFN0A001.JPG\"\/>A man walks past an electronic display board at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in south China&#8217;s Hong Kong, May 20, 2025. (Xinhua\/Chen Duo)<\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG, July 30 (Xinhua) &#8212; Hong Kong stocks market capitalization reached 42.7 trillion Hong Kong dollars (5.44 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2025, up 33 percent year-on-year, the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The HKEX said the Stock Exchange recorded an average daily turnover (ADT) of 240.2 billion Hong Kong dollars in the first half of 2025, up 118 percent year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) notched a sizeable rise in ADT, reaching 33.8 billion Hong Kong dollars in the cited period, up 184 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The derivatives market saw the average daily volume of futures and options rise to 1.7 million contracts, up 11 percent.<\/p>\n<p>ADT from the Southbound channel of the mutual market access program Stock Connect reached 110.96 billion Hong Kong dollars, up 195 percent. RMB Currency Futures&#8217; daily volume climbed to 115,150 contracts, up 43 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the first half of 2025 as a &#8220;breakout period&#8221; for Hong Kong&#8217;s capital markets, the HKEX said that with strong turnover and expanding derivatives activity, the data points to a secondary market that is not only resilient but also evolving &#8212; embracing innovation, attracting international capital and offering an increasingly diverse range of instruments for investors. \u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man walks past an electronic display board at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in south China&#8217;s Hong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,19634,467,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-32468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-hong-kong-stocks-market-capitalization","10":"tag-markets","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}