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Eurex Exchange: April with highest monthly volume in 2012/ Eurex
Repo: GC Pooling and Euro Repo Market continued to grow significantly
In April 2012, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group
recorded an average daily volume of 10.9 million contracts (April
2011: 10.5 million). Of those, 8.3 million were Eurex Exchange
contracts (April 2011: 7.6 million), and 2.6 million contracts (April
2011: 2.9 million) were traded at the U.S.-based International
Securities Exchange (ISE). In total, 156.9 million contracts were
traded at Eurex Exchange and 52.0 million at ISE. <b>This makes April
the best month in terms of trading volumes in 2012.</B>
<b>Eurex Exchange traded 64.6 million equity index derivatives contracts
(April 2011: 49.9 million).</B> The single largest contract was the
future on the EURO STOXX 50® Index with 26.1 million contracts. The
option on this blue chip index totaled 25.1 million contracts.
Futures on the DAX index recorded 3.0 million contracts while the DAX
options reached another 4.2 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI
Product recorded 3.0 million contracts, an ADV of 157,000 contracts.
The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures)
segment at Eurex Exchange recorded 57.2 million contracts (April
2011: 54.3 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 18.6 million
contracts and single stock futures equaled 38.6 million contracts
(+11 percent y-o-y).
<b>Eurex Exchange's interest rate derivatives segment achieved 34.4
million contracts (April 2011: 40.4 million).</B> The Euro-Bund-Future
reached 13.8 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 7.6 million
contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 6.8 million contracts. The Euro-
BTP-Future increased and totaled around 288,000 contracts and the
Short Term Euro-BTP-Future approximately 50,000 contracts. The Euro-
OAT-Future â launched in mid April â totaled more than 129,000
contracts in just two weeks.
The Eurex segment dividend-based derivatives totaled more than
426,000 contracts, growing 51 percent y-o-y. Volatility derivatives
grew by 36 percent y-o-y and totaled 257,000 contracts.
The volume traded on the Power Derivatives Market of European Energy
Exchange (EEX) amounted to 48.7 Terawatthours (TWh) in April 2012
(April 2011: 88.4 TWh). On the EEX Spot and Derivatives Market for
natural gas the volume traded amounted to 5.2 TWh (April 2011: 1.8
TWh). In April, a volume of 8.9 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on
the Spot and Derivatives Market for Emission Allowances compared with
6.5 million tonnes of CO2 in April 2011.
Eurex Repo, which operates Swiss Franc Repo, Euro Repo and GC Pooling
markets, reported for all Eurex Repo markets an average outstanding
volume of 235.6 billion euros (April 2011: 275.5 billion euros). The
secured money market GC Pooling recorded an average outstanding
volume of 131.5 billion euros, an increase of 52 percent y-o-y (April
2011: 86.5 billion euros). The Euro Repo Market reached an average
outstanding volume of 166.2 billion euros in April, an increase of 42
percent y-o-y. The Swiss Franc Repo market reached 69.4 billion euros.
The electronic trading platform Eurex Bonds, which rounds out Eurex's
fixed-income product range, traded 10.0 billion euros (single
counting) in April, an increase of 12 percent compared to 8.95
billion euros in April 2011. In March 2012, volume was 11.8 billion
euros.