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According to the order book statistics, turnover on the Stuttgart Stock Exchange in July ended the month at over EUR 8.3 billion, approximately 15 percent up on both the previous month and July 2010. The figures for every single asset class showed an increase on June of this year.
At over EUR 4.2 billion, almost 10 percent up on June 2011, securitised derivatives accounted for the biggest share of trading. Leverage products generated turnover in excess of EUR 2.2 billion, while investment products contributed over EUR 2 billion to the overall figure.
Bond trading rose by over 18 percent on the figure for June to end the month at around EUR 2.4 billion. There was particularly heavy trading in German government bonds (Bunds), with turnover more than 72 percent up on the preceding month at around EUR 696 million.
Out of the overall total for July, investment fund trading accounted for approximately EUR 603 million, an increase of 51 percent on the previous month. Of this figure, around EUR 532 million was attributable to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded commodities (ETCs), which together ended the month over 58 percent up on the figure for June of this year.
Trading in equities was also buoyant in July. Turnover was above the EUR 1 billion mark, roughly 57 percent higher in a year-on-year comparison. German equities took the lion’s share of trading in this segment at approximately EUR 807 million, around 8.5 percent up on the previous month.
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