Deutsche Börse: Cash Markets Achieve Highest January Turnover Since 2008 With 156.5 Billion Euros - Increase Of 34 Per Cent Year-On-Year

With a turnover of €156.5 billion in January, Deutsche Börse cash markets achieved the highest January turnover since 2008 (January 2017: €116.8 billion).

Of the €156.5 billion, €140.4 billion were attributable to Xetra (January 2017: €104.7 billion). The average daily turnover on Xetra was thus €6.4 billion. Order book turnover on Börse Frankfurt totalled €4.5 billion (January 2017: €4.4 billion) and on Tradegate Exchange €11.6 billion (January 2017: €7.8 billion).

Broken down by asset classes, cash market turnover in equities reached about €137.9 billion. Turnover in ETFs/ETCs/ETNs amounted to €16.4 billion. Turnover in bonds was €0.5 billion, in structured products €1.3 billion and in funds €0.2 billion.

The DAX security with the highest turnover on Xetra in January was Siemens AG at €6.7 billion. Covestro AG led the MDAX equities with €2.0 billion, while Aroundtown SA topped the SDAX equity index with €278 million, and Wirecard AG headed TecDAX with €1.8 billion. The ETF with the highest turnover on Xetra was iShares Core DAX UCITS ETF with €1.5 billion.

Further details are available online in Deutsche Börse’s cash market statistics at www.deutsche-boerse-cash-market.com. For a pan-European comparison of trading locations, see the statistics provided by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) at www.fese.eu.

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