Hong Kong's stock market capitalisation reached an all-time high of $13.979 trillion on February 22, according to Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.

A turnover of $80.859 billion in 639,520 trades was recorded on February 28, the highest ever.    

That same day saw 54,579 Hang Seng Index Options contracts and 7,954 stock futures contracts transactions - both daily records.

At the end of February, the total market capitalisation was $13.224 trillion, up 44% from a year earlier. The number of listed companies had risen 3.25%, to 1,176.

The market capitalisation of Mainland enterprises accounted for 49.2% of the total at the end of February, up from 41.3% for the same period last year. Their turnover value rose to 63.1% from 57.2%.