OREANDA-NEWS. September 10, 2014. Financial market performance was generally sound January through July 2014. In July, bond issuance volume declined slightly year on year; transactions on the money market expanded and interest rates moved up modestly month on month; the daily average volume of spot bond transactions decreased year on year month on month; the interbank bond index declined while the treasury bond index on the exchange market increased, both slightly; the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Component Index rallied and the average daily turnover went up in both exchanges.

I. Bond issuance
January through July, bond market issuance volume totaled 6.3 trillion yuan, up 18.8 percent year on year. Among this total, issuance volume on the interbank bond market posted 6.2 trillion yuan, up 22.2 percent year on year. In July, bond issuance posted 911.1 billion yuan, down 4.3 percent year on year, including 897.77 billion yuan which was issued on the interbank bond market, down 1.7 percent year on year.

As of the end of July, bonds deposited in the trust depository and clearing companies reached 32.7 trillion yuan, among which 30.4 trillion yuan of bonds or 93.1 percent was deposited in the interbank bond market. In the bond holding of inter-bank market investors, the share of commercial banks decreased 0.7 percentage points from end of 2013 to 66.6 percent in end of July, and the share of non-bank financial institutions shed 0.3 percentage points to 9.3 percent, while the combined share of non-legal persona institutional investors and other investors increased 1.1 percentage points to 24.1 percent. In the holding of corporate debenture bonds, the share of commercial banks, non-bank financial institutions, non-legal-person institutional investors and other investors was 44.8 percent, 9.7 percent, 33.7 percent and 11.8 percent respectively.

II. Money market performance

January through July, the trading volume on the money market totaled 136.3 trillion yuan, up 18.3 percent year on year. Among this total, the volume of pledged repo transactions was 109.5 trillion yuan, up 22.9 percent year on year; the volume of outright repo transactions was 5.7 trillion yuan, up 82.9 percent year on year; the inter-bank lending volume was 21.1 trillion yuan, down 8.3 percent. In July, the transaction volume on the money market totaled 24.2 trillion yuan, up 59.7 percent year on year and 3.4 percent month on month. Among this monthly total, the volume of pledged repo transactions registered 19.8 trillion yuan, up 61.5 percent year on year and 5.6 percent month on month; the volume of outright repo transactions was 1.1 trillion yuan, up 124.1 percent year on year and 7.0 percent month on month; the volume of interbank lending posted 3.3 trillion yuan, up 37.4 percent year on year but down 9.1 percent month on month;.

In July, the weighted average interest rate of interbank lending was 3.41 percent, up 56 basis points month on month, and the weighted average interest rate of pledged repo was 3.41 percent, up 52 basis points from April.

III. Bond market performance

January through July, the spot bond transactions on the interbank bond market posted 21.2 trillion yuan, with daily trading volume averaging 146.15 billion yuan, down 37.0 percent year on year. In July, the spot bond transactions totaled 3.7 trillion yuan on the interbank bond market, with daily trading volume averaging 159.06 billion yuan, up 184.6 percent year on year and 9.0 percent month on month.

At the end of July, the interbank bond index was 151.89 points, down 0.32 points or 0.21 percent month on month. The exchange market treasury bond index was 142.30 points, up 0.28 points or 0.20 percent month on month.

IV. Stock market performance

At the end of July, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index closed at 2201.56 points, up 153 points or 7.48 percent month on month; the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Component Index closed at 7956.91 points, up 614 points or 8.36 percent month on month. In July, the Shanghai Stock Exchange had an average daily turnover of 103.9 billion yuan, an increase of 38.31 billion yuan month on month while the Shenzhen Stock Exchange had an average daily turnover of 13.25 billion yuan, an increase of 5.61 billion yuan month on month.