The fixed-income product group also achieved a new turnover record, trading 59.7 million contracts (March 2003: 58.5 million contracts). Turnover in the Euro-Bobl-Future reached a record 16.9 million contracts (June 2003: 15.7 million), while the volume of Euro-Schatz-Future contracts traded totaled a record 13.4 million (March 2003: 13.2 million). Turnover in Euro-Bund futures amounted to 24.3 million contracts, which meant that it remained the most heavily traded product on Eurex.
A record volume of equity-based derivatives (ca. 57.5 million contracts) was traded in March. Both equity-index derivatives and equity options set new records with turnovers of 34.5 million and 23 million contracts respectively. A number of individual products also achieved record turnover: 16.8 million contracts (previous record: 16.5 million) in futures on the DJ EURO STOXX 50, 3.6 million contracts (previous record: 3.2 million) in DAX futures, and 315,984 contracts traded in French equity options (previous record: 312,700). Eurex recorded strong growth in the Dutch equity option segment: at around 707,000, the number of contracts traded was up 48 percent on the same month last year.
The electronic trading platform Eurex Bonds, which rounds off Eurex's fixed-income product range, again recorded strong growth in the trading activities of its market participants in March 2004. Eurex Bonds generated turnover of €19.8 billion in March (single counting), which corresponds to an increase of 18 percent as against March 2003.
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