Singapore Exchange (SGX) released its Monthly Market Statistics for Aug, 31 2026, showing total stock market turnover value of 43 billion Singapore dollars for August, up 8 per cent from July’s 40 billion Singapore dollars despite three fewer trading days. Turnover velocity edged higher to 46 per cent from 44 per cent the previous month, while total market capitalisation rose to 1.21 trillion Singapore dollars.

Derivatives activity registered 27.1 million contracts in August, with a daily average of 1.31 million contracts. Equity index futures led volumes, booking 13.2 million contracts, followed by iron-ore related contracts at 5.0 million. Foreign-exchange futures volume reached 8.1 million contracts, driven by 4.1 million USD/CNH and 3.1 million INR/USD contracts.

Securities daily average trading value improved to 2.16 billion Singapore dollars, 8 per cent higher than July and 35 per cent above Aug, 29 2025. Financials remained the most-traded industry, generating 23.5 billion Singapore dollars in value, while Technology turnover jumped 97 per cent year-on-year.

The exchange ended August with 604 listed securities. DBS Group Holdings Ltd (D05) retained the largest market capitalisation at 220.1 billion Singapore dollars, ahead of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (O39) at 141.5 billion Singapore dollars and Singtel (Z74) at 74.0 billion Singapore dollars.

New bond listings totalled 43 during the month, raising 25.6 billion Singapore dollars, bringing calendar-year-to-date issuance to 631 listings and 273.5 billion Singapore dollars. Local issuers accounted for 28 per cent of August’s new bonds by count.