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11 million transactions were completed on Euronext’s cash markets in May, bringing the total number of transactions for the first five months of 2004 to 64 million, up 4.4% on the same period in 2003. The activity in May 2004 is 12.8% below the one in May 2003, which was a particularly active month. The average daily number of 612,000 transactions completed since January is up 3.4% compared to the same period of last year.
Shares
Share trading showed an increase of 5.1% in the year-to-date, with 61 million transactions registered so far this year, including 10.3 million in the month of May, 492,000 on an average daily basis.
Trackers
Transactions in trackers totalled 140,000 since the beginning of the year, representing more than 1,300 per day.
Derivatives products
Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, traded 67.5 million contracts in May 2004, an increase of 20% on May 2003, making it the most active May ever with an average daily volume of 3.5 million contracts. Each month this year Euronext.liffe has broken the previous volume record for that month.
Year-to-date Euronext.liffe has traded over 371 million contracts, up 29% on the same period in 2003.
Individual equity products showed the strongest growth, trading over 28 million contracts in May, up 62% on May 2003. Amsterdam set a new open interest record in equity options of 19.8 million on 20 May. Short-term interest rate products traded 24 million contracts during the month and are up 24% year-to-date. Commodities products have also seen continued growth with volumes up 21% year-to-date.
Euronext.liffe’s Eurodollar future, launched on 18 March, traded 255,000 contracts in May, with average daily volume rising to over 12,700. Open interest reached 50,000 for the first time just ten weeks after its launch, faster than any other contract in the history of the Euronext.liffe exchanges.
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