Trading in equity-based products at Eurex was especially strong this year, growing some 60 percent against the previous year's figure (165 million contracts). Eurex has an attractive product portfolio that supports the market participants' expanded use of smart risk-management products, setting a successful trend in 2001. Within the equity-based derivatives segment, index products achieved the highest growth rates with increases of about 70 percent in these products across the board. The highest growth rates here were achieved in futures and options on the Dow Jones Euro-STOXX 50, with some 38 million futures and 19 million options traded, increasing about 160 percent and 130 percent, respectively, year on year. Volume in futures on the Nemax 50 increased more than sixfold in 2001, with 5.3 million contracts traded, as compared with 0.7 million contracts the year before (market launch in June 2000).
In the fixed-income segment, the capital market products at Eurex posted the highest volume with some 406 million contracts traded (previous year, 288 million contracts). The Bund future was the most heavily traded product with 179 million contracts (previous year: 151 million contracts, 16 percent growth), followed by the Bobl future with about 100 million contracts (previous year, 62.5 million contracts, 58 percent growth) and the Schatz future with over 90 million contracts traded (previous year: 42.8 million contracts, 115 percent growth). In the equity options segment, the option on Deutsche Telekom topped the list with 22 million contracts traded and 97 percent growth against the previous year, followed by the option on Nokia with some 14,5 million contracts traded and more than 300 percent growth over the previous year's volume, as well as the option on DaimlerChrysler, which posted a 70 percent increase in volume with 10 ,2 million contracts traded in 2001.
