14.3 million transactions were completed on Euronext’s cash markets in July 2005, up 40.5% on July last year, making it the busiest month since March 2004. During the first seven months of 2005, nearly 91 million cash transactions were registered on Euronext, up 7.4% compared to the same period last year, representing a daily average of 614,000.
Shares
13.8 million share transactions were completed in July, up 42.4% on the same month in 2004. A total of 86.8 million transactions were registered in the year-to-date, up 8% on the same period in 2004, representing a daily average of 587,000.
Initial Public Offerings
There have been 12 IPOs on all Euronext markets in July with EUR 3.5 billion raised, bringing the total number of new listings so far this year to 39, a record level since 2001. Those 39 IPOs represent an additional market capitalization of EUR 34.1 billion, with a total amount of EUR 6.6 billion raised.
Derivatives products
Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, traded 372.9 million futures and options contracts from January to July (on a like-for-like comparison), up 7% on the same period in 2004. Average daily volume for the year-to-date amounted to 2.5 million contracts.
Short Term Interest Rate products traded their busiest July ever, trading 24 million futures and options contracts, representing an average daily volume of 1.3 million contracts, year-to-date.
Equity products traded 24 million futures and options contracts, up 40% on July 2004 and up 9% year-to-date.
Euronext.liffe traded a total of 49.2 million futures and options contracts in July 2005, up 22% year-on-year (on a like-for-like comparison), representing an average daily volume of 2.3 million.
Commodity products traded over 670,000 contracts in the month and are up 9% in the year-to-date.
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