The capital market products were the leading product group again in June, with volume of some 31 million contracts traded. The most active contract in the capital market products segment and at Eurex as a whole was the Euro-Bund future, with 14.1 million contracts traded in June, roughly five percent more than in June 2000. Euro-Bobl future volume also grew -compared with the same month of last year -increasing 23 percent to 7.3 million contracts traded, Schatz future volume increased 60 percent to 6.9 million contracts. This makes the capital market products at Eurex the world's most successful exchange-traded derivatives family.
Some 22.2 million contracts were traded in equity-based derivatives in June, 10.6 million of them in contracts on equity-index derivatives and 11.6 million on equity options. In the equity-index derivatives, the futures contract on the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 index topped the list with some 3.2 million contracts traded, more than doubling the volume on a monthly basis compared with June 2000. The growth in options on the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 index was even stronger, increasing almost 120 percent to 1.5 million contracts. In the DAX options, about 3 million contracts were traded (an increase of 45 percent), and about 1.2 million contracts (a 27 percent increase) in the DAX futures.
In each of three stock options, including two options on foreign equities, more than a million contracts were traded in June: Deutsche Telekom with 2.2 million contracts traded, as well as Credit Suisse and Nokia with some 1.1 million contracts, respectively. Eurex is continuing to expand its position as the leading platform for international equity derivatives with steady gains in this segment.
