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Instinet Announces July 2003 Transaction Information

Date 04/09/2003

Instinet Group Incorporated (NASDAQ: INET) announced today that its U.S. equity share volume in July 2003 was 12,511 million shares. (1) This compares to 13,250 million shares in June 2003 and 10,320 million shares in July 2002.

Instinet's U.S. equity share volume in July comprised 10,724 million shares of NASDAQ-listed stocks and 1,787 million shares of exchange-listed stocks. (1)

Instinet's estimated total U.S. equity market share in July was 15.2%. Estimated share of NASDAQ-listed volume was 27.5%(2), and of exchange-listed volume was 4.1%.

Instinet's average net transaction fee revenue per U.S. equity share per side in July was 0.19 cents. (3)

  U.S. Equity Shares Traded by Instinet (1) Market Share (Instinet (1) volume as percent of total market volume) (2) Average Net U.S. Equity Transaction Fee Revenue (3)
Million Shares #  
Month # Trade Days NASDAQ - Listed (4) Exchange - Listed Total U.S. NASDAQ- Listed Exchange - Listed Total U.S. U.S. Cents Per Equity Share Per Side
Jul- 03 22 10,724 1,787 12,511 27.5 4.1 15.2 0.19
Jun- 03 21 11,515 1,735 13,250 27.0 3.9 15.3 0.18
Jul- 02 22 8,841 1,479 10,320 18.7 2.8 10.3 0.26

Monthly totals may not reflect weekly data, which are preliminary. The number of trading days in each period takes account of U.S. market holidays and any other U.S. market closings.

  1. Represents Instinet Group Incorporated volume from all sources, including The Island ECN, Inc., beginning the week ended 9/27/02, ProTrader Securities L.P. from the beginning of the week ending 10/5/03 through 7/22/03, and Instinet Corporation.
  2. Market share information may be subject to change when NASDAQ posts its final volume statistics.
  3. Net equity transaction fee revenue is presented net of "Soft Dollar and Commission Recapture" and "Broker-Dealer Rebate" expenses. The required accounting for our soft dollar and commission recapture businesses requires us to record transaction fee revenues on a gross basis, inclusive of revenue which is associated with our soft dollar and commission recapture expenses and broker dealer rebates. 4.
  4. For a description of how we calculate our transaction volumes, see "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Key Statistical Information" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002.
Instinet has experienced significant seasonality in its business, and period-to-period comparisons of operating results are not necessarily meaningful, nor are the results for any period necessarily indicative of results for any future period.