Cash products
19.8 million transactions were registered on Euronext’s cash markets in November 2006, up 34.8% on November 2005, making the month the busiest November ever.
In total, more than 200 million cash transactions have been registered since the beginning of the year, up 36.2% on the same period in 2005. This represents a daily average of 856,000 transactions.
Shares
18.9 million transactions were completed in November 2006, bringing the total number of transactions since the beginning of the year to almost 193 million, up 35.8% on 2005.
Initial Public Offerings
There were 16 more IPOs, raising EUR 1.2 billion, on all Euronext markets in November 2006, bringing the total number of new listings since the beginning of the year to 122 and the total amount of capital raised to EUR 15 billion. Those 122 IPOs represent an additional market capitalization of EUR 64 billion. The total number of new listings so far this year is at its highest since 2001. The total value of these listings is near the record level registered during the same period in 2005.
NextTrack & NextWarrants
Year-to-date transactions were up 106% on NextTrack and up 67% on NextWarrants, which includes warrants and certificates, making the first eleven months of the year the busiest ever for these products.
Derivatives products
Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, traded 60 million futures and options contracts during the month of November, bringing the year-to-date volume to a record 680 million contracts. Total exchange volume in the year-to-date is up 21% on 2005.
Year-to-date trading volume has grown across the whole product range. Interest rate products have traded 385 million contracts in the year-to-date, up 19% on 2005; equity products have traded 286 million contracts so far this year, up 24% on 2005, and Commodity products traded 9 million contracts, up 15% on 2005.
AEX Weekly Options traded their busiest month since the launch in May 2006, trading over 420,000 contracts, an average daily volume of 24,921. The contract also traded a record daily volume of 57,488 on 3 November 2006.
Following increasing interest rate volatility in Japan, Euronext.liffe’s Three Month Euroyen Futures contracts, which is listed in an agreement with TFX (the Tokyo Financial Exchange), traded a record daily volume of 6,773 on 14 November.
Notes:
This press release has been prepared using actual volumes for the month, apart from for the last trading day when an estimate based on the average daily volume for the current month is used. Final detailed figures for the month will be published three working days after the end of the month on the Euronext website: www.euronext.comw
