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Deutsche Börse: Orderbook Turnover At 84 Billion Euros In October

Date 01/11/2012

Order book turnover on Xetra and the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading stood at €88.7 billion in October – a decrease by 19 percent year-on-year (October 2011: €109.5 billion). Of the €88.7 billion, €84.1 billion were attributable to Xetra – a decrease by 20 percent y-o-y (October 2011: €104.6 billion). €4.6 billion were attributable to the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading – a decrease by 7 percent y-o-y (October 2011: €5.0 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange* totalled approximately €2.6 billion in October.

In equities, turnover reached €76.5 billion on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets (Xetra: €74.8 billion, Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading: €1.7 billion). Turnover in bonds was €2.0 billion, and in structured products on Scoach €1.6 billion. Order book turnover in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) amounted to €8.7 billion.

A total of 14.9 million transactions were executed on Xetra in October, a decrease of 30 percent y-o-y (October 2011: 21.4 million).

The DAX security with the highest turnover in October was Siemens AG at €5.5 billion. Metro AG led the MDAX equities at €804.3 million, while Delticom AG topped the SDAX equity index with €59.6 million, and Aixtron SE headed TecDAX with €208.8 million. The ETF with the highest turnover on Xetra was iShares DAX with €784.3 million.

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

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*For the purpose of statistical comparability data is adapted to the method of counting of regional exchanges.