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London Stock Exchange Group Monthly Market Report - December 2011

Date 06/01/2012

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) sits at the heart of the world’s financial community, offering international business unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets. In December a total of 24.4 million trades were carried out across the Group’s electronic equity order books with a combined value of £128.1 billion (€151.8 billion), down 11 per cent on December 2010 (£143.8 billion).

UK Equities Order Book

During the month, the average daily value traded on the UK order book was £3.5 billion (€4.2 billion), down 5 per cent year on year. The average daily number of trades increased 25 per cent to 584,371. 

The LSE’s share of trading in the total UK order book for December was 61.7 per cent.

Italian Equities Order Book

On the Italian order book, the average daily number of trades was 200,582, down 13.4 per cent on the same month last year, whilst the average daily value traded on the order book decreased 33 per cent year on year to €1.8 billion (£1.5 billion).

Turquoise Cash Equities

The average daily value traded on the Turquoise integrated book in December was €1.4 billion (£1.2 billion) up 66 per cent on the same month last year. The average daily number of trades was up 119 per cent at 384,812.

On the Turquoise dark mid-point book, the average daily value traded was €103 million (£87 million), down 14 per cent on December 2010. There was an average daily total of 20,816 trades, an increase of over 21 per cent year on year.

Turquoise share of pan-European trading for December was 5.4 per cent.

Derivatives

On the Group’s derivatives platforms, the total number of contracts traded was 5,346,435, down 12 per cent compared with December 2010.

Exchange Traded Products

Total value traded in Exchange Traded Products across the Group’s order books in December was down 14 per cent year on year to £8.0 billion (€9.5 billion). The total number of trades was also down 21 per cent at 281,496.

Fixed income

The average daily value traded on the MTS Cash markets during the month was down 21 per cent year on year at €5.4 billion (£4.5 billion). On the MTS Repo market, the average term adjusted daily value was down 38 per cent year on year at €153.3 billion (£129.4 billion).

The average daily value traded on the Group’s retail bond markets was €994 million (£839 million), up 42 per cent on the same month last year. The average daily number of trades was up 40 per cent at 22,682.

 

Additional Information:

This release uses only electronic trading data; trades that are reported to the either London Stock Exchange or Borsa Italiana under their rules but executed away from their electronic order books are not included.

Figures for the UK and Italian order books include cash equity trades in domestic and international equities, Exchange traded products and Securitised Derivatives.

There were 20 trading days on the London Stock Exchange in December 2011 compared with 21 in December 2010, and 21 trading days on Borsa Italiana in December 2011, the same as December 2010.

The December 2011 value traded figures use a € per £ exchange rate of 1.18. The exchange rate used for December 2010 was 1.18.

BORSA ITALIANA – LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ELECTRONIC ORDER BOOK TRADING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December-11

 

December-10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trades

Value Traded

 

Trades

Value Traded

Totals

 

 

£m

€m

 

 

£m

€m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UK order book

 

11,687,426

70,308

83,298

 

9,788,179

77,562

91,450

Italian order book

 

4,212,221

31,761

37,629

 

4,863,293

47,787

56,344

Derivatives

 

5,346,435

44,270

52,450

 

6,051,176

64,832

76,442

Retail Bonds

 

476,316

17,618

20,874

 

340,141

12,477

14,712

MTS Cash

 

24,468

94,947

112,489

 

28,020

120,960

142,620

MTS Repo

 

57,727

2,718,003

3,220,173

 

59,398

4,434,867

5,229,006

Turquoise Integrated

 

8,081,047

24,241

28,720

 

4,038,804

16,065

18,942

Turquoise MidPoint

 

437,138

1,825

2,163

 

394,708

2,347

2,767

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UK order book

 

584,371

3,515

4,165

 

466,104

3,693

4,355

Italian order book

 

200,582

1,512

1,792

 

231,585

2,276

2,683

Derivatives

 

261,708

2,116

2,507

 

272,834

3,062

3,611

Retail Bonds

 

22,682

839

994

 

16,197

594

701

MTS Cash

 

1,165

4,521

5,357

 

1,334

5,760

6,791

MTS Repo

 

2,749

129,429

153,342

 

2,828

211,184

249,000

Turquoise Integrated

 

384,812

1,154

1,368

 

175,600

698

824

Turquoise MidPoint

 

20,816

87

103

 

17,161

102

120

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January to December 2011

 

January to December 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trades

Value Traded

 

Trades

Value Traded

Totals

 

 

£m

€m

 

 

£m

€m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UK order book

 

170,600,032

1,201,192

1,383,546

 

146,161,773

1,193,585

1,390,421

Italian order book

 

73,583,140

700,685

806,782

 

67,133,685

720,077

839,371

Derivatives

 

86,285,438

806,504

927,498

 

80,016,069

807,735

942,273

Retail Bonds

 

4,696,777

179,167

206,802

 

3,881,764

197,641

230,022

MTS Cash

 

484,256

2,264,334

2,608,011

 

461,549

2,237,344

2,602,274

MTS Repo

 

741,789

54,398,607

62,614,586

 

624,044

52,170,393

60,843,188

Turquoise Integrated

 

105,660,752

393,607

452,758

 

56,223,333

230,553

269,093

Turquoise MidPoint

 

7,601,856

44,991

51,809

 

5,787,472

32,190

37,822

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UK order book

 

679,681

4,786

5,512

 

577,715

4,718

5,496

Italian order book

 

287,434

2,737

3,151

 

262,241

2,813

3,279

Derivatives

 

337,642

3,151

3,624

 

311,478

3,154

3,679

Retail Bonds

 

18,347

700

808

 

15,163

772

899

MTS Cash

 

1,892

8,845

10,188

 

1,803

8,740

10,165

MTS Repo

 

2,898

212,495

244,588

 

2,438

203,791

237,669

Turquoise Integrated

 

411,131

1,532

1,762

 

217,920

894

1,043

Turquoise MidPoint

 

29,579

175

202

 

22,432

125

147

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figures for the UK and Italian order books include cash equity trades in domestic and international equities, Exchange traded products and Securitised Derivatives. For Derivatives, the values used are notional values while "trades" refer to contracts traded. Value traded figures for MTS Repo are term-adjusted, and totals for MTS Cash include BondVision.