OREANDA-NEWS. SIX Swiss Exchange today published the latest edition of its "Bonds Quarterly Statistics". The CHF Bonds segment showed a turnover of CHF 35.1 billion in the second quarter, a decrease of 5.6% compared to the previous quarter, and a 8% decrease year on year. The strongest sector in terms of turnover, financials, grew by 4%, while the sector "government" decreased by 12%. In the segment of Non-CHF Bonds, the second quarter turned over EUR 5.5 billion, representing an increase of 46% compared to the previous quarter and 68% compared to the second quarter of 2015.

Domestic CHF Bonds expand its share

Within the CHF Bonds segment, turnover in domestic bonds increased from 21.5 billion to 22.5 billion. This results in domestic bonds representing 64% of the total turnover, compared to foreign bonds representing 36%. A similar picture can be seen in the total number of listed bonds, where the number of domestic CHF Bonds increased by 20 to 931 and the number of foreign CHF Bonds decreased by 22 to 758.