SGX securities market turnover jumps 37% YoY to $46.2b in July

Total market capitalisation increased to $1.2t.

Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) securities market turnover rose 37% year-on-year (YoY) to $46.2b in July.

Securities' daily average value (SDAV) similarly increased 37% to surpass $2b for a sixth consecutive month.

Derivatives traded volume climbed 16% YoY to 33.9 million contracts, with derivatives daily average volume (DAV) also up 16% YoY to about 1.5 million contracts.

SGX’s overall turnover velocity increased to 44% in July from 41% a year earlier, whilst SGX Catalist turnover velocity rose to 39% from 37%.

Total market capitalisation increased to $1.2t in July 2026 from $946b in July 2025.

The Straits Times Index (STI) advanced 8.9% in July to 5,628.5, marking its biggest month-on-month (MoM) increase in over five years.

The increase was supported by a global rotation out of technology into defensive financials.

Year-to-date, the benchmark returned 21% on a price-return basis, outperforming ASEAN peers in Singapore dollar terms.

Cash equities SDAV increased across all investor segments, led by institutional investors with 38% YoY growth.

Retail investors were net buyers for a sixth consecutive month, with net inflows rising 92% MoM to $545.2m, primarily in small- and mid-cap stocks.

STI exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their 17th consecutive month of net inflows in July, bringing cumulative inflows to $1.6b.

Assets under management rose 89% YoY to $5.6b.

SGX Commodities reported its strongest July for petrochemicals and SGX SICOM rubber derivatives.

The volume of petrochemical contracts, including benzene and naphtha, rose 51% YoY.

Rubber futures and options volume climbed 2% YoY to 316,485 contracts.

Across all commodity derivatives, year-to-date average open interest increased 18% YoY, whilst year-to-date DAV rose 5%.

In listed currency markets, mixed economic signals in the US drove hedging activity.

Total FX futures traded volume rose 54% YoY in July to 9.3 million contracts.

DAV of SGX KRW/USD FX Futures surged 182% YoY to 54,453 lots.

Daily average open interest in SGX TWD/USD FX Futures climbed 84.6% MoM to a notional $52.9m (US$41.3m).

($1 = US$0.78)

Follow the link for more news on

SGX

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia