The Singapore Exchange (SGX) saw an 8.6 percent year-on-year growth in turnover value to $401.946 billion in 2010, though total securities trading volume dropped 13.3 percent year-on-year with 400.446 billion shares sold.
The value of turnover for December reached $28.4 billion, down from $40.4 billion in November. However, turnover value grew 7.3 percent year-on-year in December.
The volume of turnover for December hit 25.4 billion shares traded, down 7 percent year-on-year.
For mainboard listings, turnover velocity for last month slipped to 43 percent from 72 percent in November and 49 percent in 2009.
For Catalist listings, turnover velocity for December slid to 32 percent from 75 percent in November and 82 percent in 2009.
Capped trades, whose contract value exceeds $1.5 million, accounted for 42 percent of all trades in December, down from 48 percent in November but higher than the 38 percent seen in December 2009.
As of December 31, 2010, 782 firms were listed on the SGX main board and Catalist board, with $902 billion in combined market capitalisation.
On the derivatives front, trading volume of futures and options climbed 14.3 percent to 60.72 million contracts in 2010 from 53.11 million contracts a year ago.
For the month of December, trading volume for derivatives dropped 3 percent year-on-year at around 4.87 million contracts.