Sapura Energy the top traded single-stock warrant

GLOBAL equities had a turnaround performance last week, driven by strong earnings reported by US tech companies such as Google parent Alphabet, Biogen and others. Further, last Wednesday, US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to start talks on reducing tariffs and other trade barriers related to industrial goods, apart from cars and car parts ( Financial Times, July 26). The S&P 500 Index was up 1.3% from the previous Friday to 2,837.4 points (at the time of writing).

Last week, the warrants market saw a good turnover of RM870.4 million, down 6.5% from the week prior. The Hang Seng Index (HSI) took a breather as trade tensions between the US and Europe eased. The HSI closed in the positive for the first three days of the week, gaining a total of 2.5% or 696.5 points to 28,920.9 points on Wednesday. The index then fell 0.5% on Thursday and gained a slight 0.1% on Friday, ending the week at 28,804.3 points, up 2.1%.

HSI warrants once again dominated the warrants market space with a turnover of RM745.5 million, making up 85.6% of total warrants turnover. Call warrant HSI-C3N (January 2019 expiry) topped the chart with RM116.5 million traded last week. Investors took profit on this warrant on Tuesday and Wednesday as the underlying rose, selling back 4.1 million units before accumulating again on Thursday.

Other than that, call warrants HSI-C3I (October 2018 expiry) and HSI-C3O (January 2019 expiry) were also heavily traded, taking up the second and third spots on the top traded list. At the end of the week, investors net sold 8.7 million units of HSI-C3I and 1.4 million units of HSI-C3O.

Meanwhile, bargain hunters who hoped to benefit from a downward movement in the HSI collected the HSI put warrants, resulting in HSI-H4G (September 2018 expiry) also being popular with investors. The put warrant moved in an opposite direction to the underlying, closing 19.2% lower w-o-w to RM0.590 on Friday.

For warrants over single stocks, SAPNRG-C64, a call warrant over Malaysian oil and gas player Sapura Energy Bhd, emerged as the top traded single stock warrant last week with RM4.4 million traded, as the underlying gained 3.4% w-o-w to RM0.605 on Friday. Investors were net sellers of this warrant, selling back 4.7 million units throughout the week as the warrant bid price rose 13.3% week on week to RM0.085.

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