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In April, Equity-based Derivatives was the strongest segment at Eurex, with a total of 63.2 million contracts traded, an increase of approximately 16 percent on the previous year. Of the 63.2 million contracts, 27.6 million were based on equity index derivatives and 35.6 million on equity derivatives.
Of the equity derivatives, particularly strong growth was seen in single stock futures (SSFs). In April, a record total of 11.6 contracts were traded, an increase of more than 900 percent on March. Year-to-date SSFs have traded over 13.2 million contracts. On 19 April SSFs set a new daily record of 3.9 million contracts. Options on the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50 was also up 25 percent year-on-year to 8.7 million contracts.
Approximately 59 million contracts were traded in the Fixed Income Derivatives segment, a rise of 18 percent year-on-year (April 2005: 49.8 million contracts). The Euro-Bund Future remained the most successful product at Eurex with 26.2 million contracts, an increase of 17 percent year-on-year (April 2005: 22.4 million contracts). Approximately 13 million contracts were traded in the Euro-Bobl Future, a year on year increase of 16 percent.
Approximately € 10.3 billion (single counting) was traded in April on the electronic trading platform Eurex Bonds, which rounds out Eurex's fixed-income product range. This represent a year-on-year increase of 15 percent (April 2005: €8.9 billion) The "Jumbo Pfandbriefe" segment recorded monthly trading volume of approximately € 1.2 billion, a rise of approximately 42 percent on the previous month.
