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The International Securities Exchange (ISE) today reported average daily volume of 4.0 million contracts in May 2010.
Average daily trading volume for all options contracts decreased 10.6% to 4.0 million contracts in May as compared to 4.4 million contracts during the same period in 2009. Total options volume for the month decreased 10.6% to 79.2 million contracts from 88.6 million contracts in the same year-ago period.
On a year-to-date basis, average daily trading volume of all options decreased 17.0% to 3.4 million contracts traded. Total year-to-date options volume through May 2010 decreased 17.0% to 347.6 million contracts from 418.9 million contracts in the same period last year.
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