SINGAPORE: The Singapore Exchange's derivatives and commodities markets achieved record highs in 2012.
However as in most global markets, trading activities declined.
Turnover dropped 12 per cent in 2012 to S$321.5 billion.
However securities market performance, as measured by the Straits Times Index, was up 20 per cent last year.
In December, turnover was up 39 per cent from a year earlier at S$23.2 billion.
Meanwhile, derivatives volume in 2012 reached a new high of 80.2 million contracts, up 11 per cent.
The volume of agri-commodity futures also grew 56 per cent in 2012 to 255,815 contracts.
- CNA/jc
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