According to order book statistics, turnover at the Stuttgart Stock Exchange topped the EUR 7.2 billion mark in June 2011. Due to several public holidays in June, trading in the past month was somewhat weaker than in the first months of the year. Boerse Stuttgart, however, nevertheless recorded slight growth in a year-on-year comparison. The half-year figures also show a pleasing development in turnover. All in all, trading volumes in the first six months amounted to more than EUR 57 billion and was therefore 20 percent higher than in the first half of 2010.
The lion's share of trading volume at the Stuttgart Stock Exchange was accounted for by securitised derivatives. In June 2011 turnover in this asset class amounted to more than EUR 3.8 billion in total. On a half-year basis, a turnover of more than EUR 29 billion was achieved; this is equivalent to a growth of 16 percent in a year-on-year comparison.
Trading volumes in debt instruments amounted to more than EUR 2 billion in June. A turnover of EUR 16.6 billion was recorded for the first six months of 2011, thus trading volumes in this segment increased by more than one fifth on the figures of the previous year. Growth was particularly strong in trading with emerging market bonds where turnover was up by more than 35 percent in comparison with the previous month.
In the case of equities, Boerse Stuttgart recorded a turnover growth of almost 35 percent. Trading in German equities developed exceptionally well and, in the first six months of the year, grew by more than 40 percent to a total of EUR 5.1 billion. In June, equities trading accounted for around EUR 922 million of total turnover.
Total trading volumes for investment fund units in June amounted to almost EUR 400 million. Most of this was accounted for by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded commodities (ETCs). Boerse Stuttgart's turnover in this area amounted to more than EUR 336 million. With a volume of more than EUR 4 billion in the first half year of 2011, trading in this asset class at the Stuttgart Stock Exchange was up by roughly one quarter compared with the first half of 2010.