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The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced consolidated market performance statistics for its U.S. and Nordic exchanges for the month of April 2008.
Business Highlights
- The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities increased 53% from last year. On the NASDAQ OMX Nordic and Baltic Markets, average daily equity trade counts rose 17.5% from April 2007.
- For the thirteenth consecutive month, the NASDAQ Stock Market had the largest matched market share of U.S.-listed equities at 29.2%.
- The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched share volume in NYSE-listed stocks increased 92.4% from April 2007.
- ETF average daily share volume matched on The NASDAQ Stock Market increased 119.4% from one year ago.
- The average daily value of bond trading on NASDAQ OMX Nordic markets gained 270% from April 2007.
Equities Trading
The average daily value traded on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled USD 85.2 billion (EUR 54.1 billion) in April 2008 as compared with USD 60.1 billion (EUR 44.6 billion) in April 2007, representing an increase of 41.7% (21.3%). The average daily number of trades executed on NASDAQ OMX exchanges totaled 9.3 million in April 2008, representing a 52.2% increase from the same month last year.
The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched volume in all U.S. securities was 2.0 billion shares in April 2008, an increase of 27% from April 2007. The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched trade count in U.S. equities increased 53% from last year.
Average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was 829 million shares in April 2008, representing a 92.4% increase compared with the same period last year. Average daily matched volume in NASDAQ-listed securities was 839 million shares.
The NASDAQ Stock Market's matched share of U.S. equity volume in April 2008 was more than any other U.S. exchange for the thirteenth consecutive month at 29.2%, compared with 28.7% during the same period last year. NASDAQ's matched market share in NYSE-listed securities last month was 21.3%, up from 16.1% in April 2007.
On all the Nordic and Baltic Markets, the average daily number of trades was 201.7 thousand in April 2008, an increase of 17.5% from March 2007. In April 2008, average daily value traded was USD 6.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion).
Derivatives Trading
The average daily volume in all equity and fixed-income derivative products traded on the Nordic Exchanges totaled 412.8 thousand contracts in April 2008. The average daily trading volume in share products, index products and fixed income products changed -27%, 14%, and 15%, respectively, compared with April 2007.
An additional 156.9 thousand Nordic equity derivative contracts traded on EDX on an average daily basis during April 2008, up 19.9% from 130.9 thousand in April 2007.
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Trading
The NASDAQ Stock Market's average daily matched share volume of U.S. ETFs in April 2008 was 335.4 million shares, more than any other U.S. exchange, representing a gain of 119.4% from the same period last year. Matched market share in U.S. ETFs last month was 37.1%, a 2.3 percentage point increase from the same period one year ago.
The average daily value traded in ETFs on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic region last month totaled EUR 207 million, representing an increase of 21.0% from April 2007.
Bond Trading
The average daily value traded in fixed income securities on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic region in March 2008 amounted to EUR 151 million, compared with EUR 41 million during the same month last year -- an increase of 270% from April 2007.
For more information about these and other NASDAQ Stock Market performance statistics, visit www.nasdaqtrader.com/marketshare.
For more detailed statistics on NASDAQ OMX exchanges in the Nordic region, including national figures, visit http://www.omxnordicexchange.com/newsandstatistics/statisticsanalysis/?languageId=1.
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, and with over 3,900 companies, it is number one in worldwide listings among major markets. NASDAQ OMX Group offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market; the OMX Nordic Exchange, including First North; and the 144A PORTAL Market. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs. NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 60 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. OMX Nordic Exchange is not a legal entity but describes the common offering from NASDAQ OMX Group exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit www.nasdaqomx.com.
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Monthly Volume and Market Share Report is available at http://media.primezone.com/cache/6948/file/5648.pdf
