With the strong economic growth in Hong Kong and Mainland China, the HKEx securities markets performed strongly and set new records year after year. By the end of 2007, the total market capitalization of the securities market in Hong Kong, including the Main Board and the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), reached HK$21 trillion. In 2007, HKEx was ranked 4th by total equity funds raised, and 5th by market capitalization, among all stock exchanges worldwide.

At the year-end of 2007, the HSI closed at 27812.65 points, representing a year-on-year increase of 39.4%. Its all-time highs, set on October 30, 2007, are 31,958.54 points during trading and 31,638.22 points at closing. The turnover of HKEx for both the Main Board and the GEM also set new records in 2007.

*Note: When this book is ready to print, however, we do not have detailed data of HK stock markets for the year of 2007. In the following charts and tables, the year end data of 2006 are presented.