Deutsche Börse: Turnover On Xetra Grows By 27 Percent In July - 18.3 Million Transactions On Xetra

Order book turnover on Xetra and the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading stood at €118.8 billion in July – an increase by 25 percent year-on-year (July 2010: €94.9 billion). Of the €118.8 billion, €113.3 billion were attributable to Xetra (+27 percent y-o-y, July 2010: €89.3 billion). €5.5 billion were attributable to the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading, a slight decrease of 3 percent y-o-y (July 2010: €5.7 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange totaled €2.6 billion in July, more than doubling y-o-y (+110 percent, July 2010: €1.3 billion).

In equities, turnover reached €96.0 billion on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets (Xetra: €93.7 billion, Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading: €2.3 billion). Turnover in bonds was €1.7 billion, and in structured products €2.2 billion (including Scoach). Order book turnover in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) amounted to €18.9 billion.

A total of 18.3 million transactions were executed on Xetra in July, an increase of 25 percent y-o-y (July 2010: 14.6 million).

The DAX security with the highest turnover in July was Deutsche Bank AG at €6.3 billion. Continental AG led the MDAX equities at €926 million, while Deutz AG topped the SDAX equity index with €65.8 million, and Aixtron SE headed TecDAX with €648.4 million. The ETF with the highest turnover on Xetra was iShares DAX with €5.5 billion.

Further details are available online in Deutsche Börse’s cash market statistics at www.deutsche-boerse.com. 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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