Boerse Stuttgart’s order book statistics show its turnover was more than EUR 8.6 billion in September 2011, bringing trading volumes back in line with the level achieved in the months prior to August’s volatile markets. The total turnover for the first nine months of the year was just under EUR 87 billion, about 25 percent higher than in the first nine months of 2010.
Securitised derivatives accounted for most of the turnover. The transaction volume in this asset class totalled almost EUR 4.8 billion in September. Leverage products accounted for almost EUR 2.8 billion of the turnover, while investment products contributed EUR 2 billion. Turnover in securitised derivatives over the first nine months of the year was up around 23 percent year-on-year, at more than EUR 45 billion.
The trading volume for debt instruments in September was more than EUR 2 billion, just slightly below the turnover for September 2010. The volume of debt instruments traded since the beginning of the year was more than EUR 23 billion in total, around 18 percent higher than in the same period of 2010. At more than 150 percent, the growth in German government bonds (Bunds) trading was particularly strong.
Equities trading accounted for around EUR 878 million of Boerse Stuttgart’s total turnover in September. The turnover for the first nine months of 2011 was up almost 44 percent year-on-year. The trend in German equities trading was particularly positive; since the beginning of the year trading in this area is up almost 53 percent to EUR 8 billion in total.
At about EUR 776 million, turnover in ETFs and ETCs in September 2011 was more than double that recorded in September 2010. The total turnover in investment fund units was more than EUR 873 million.