Singapore Exchange (SGX) said securities and derivatives trading activity declined in May from a year earlier, in line with other global markets.

Securities

- Turnover fell 17% year on-year and 10% from a month earlier to $29.2 billion; securities daily average volume was $1.5 billion.
- Exchange traded fund trading rose 16% to $1.1 billion from a year earlier.

Derivatives

- Volume fell 17% to 5.0 million contracts from a year earlier but was up 2% from April; derivatives daily average volume was 243,948 contracts.
- Nifty futures volume was 1.2 million contracts, up 16% year on year.

Clearing

- Volume of OTC commodity contracts cleared increased 6% to 11,242 contracts from a year earlier.
- Volume of iron ore swaps cleared hit a new record high of 6,905 contracts, up 73% from a year earlier.
- Volume of Interest Rate Swaps cleared totaled US$76.5 billion from the November 2010 launch to 31 May 2011.

The consolidated overview of the securities, derivatives and commodities markets is now available on the SGX website at the following URL:

http://www.sgx.com/wps/portal/marketplace/mp-en/prices_indices_statistics/market_statistics