OREANDA-NEWS. The statistical monthly report contains the latest trade and turnover figures for SIX Swiss Exchange.

A total of 21'045'833 transactions were conducted on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange Ltd since the start of 2016. This marks a year-on-year decrease of 4.8%. There have been 20'165'056 trades in the Equities including Funds + ETPs segment. Since the start of 2016, trading turnover across all securities has fallen by 10.4% in total to CHF 568.9 billion. With the exception of the Bonds non-CHF segment, turnover is down year-on-year across all segments.

In May 2016, a total of 3'384'126 trades (-8.8%) were conducted, generating turnover of CHF 91.0 billion (-28.4%). The performance of the Equities including Funds + ETPs segment was as follows: there were 3'235'882 trades, a decrease of 8.8% on the previous month, with turnover down by 33.9% to CHF 70.3 billion. On May 25, SIX Swiss Exchange welcomed UniCredit as a new issuer on the Swiss ETF market. This new arrival increases the number of ETF providers on SIX Swiss Exchange to 22 and the product range on offer to a new record high of 1'240 products.