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NYSE Euronext Is Europe’s Top Trading Venue

Date 22/03/2010

NYSE Euronext (NYX) announced today that the EUR 13.4 billion traded on its European electronic order book on 19 March made it Europe's largest trading venue.

This represented approximately 24% of all reported trades on European markets and 85% of total trades in Euronext-listed shares.

As the world’s premier multi-asset class exchanges, NYSE Euronext uses state-of-the-art technology to deliver outstanding opportunities to Europe’s largest investment community, with unique positioning in contract expiry dates for derivatives.

Commenting on the announcement, Cees Vermaas, Executive Vice President & Head of European Cash Markets at NYSE Euronext, said:

“Last week’s new record levels of trading on our markets are more evidence that NYSE Euronext offers the largest pool of liquidity by far, with technology that count among the best-in-class and most resilient anywhere. Together these strengths make us one of the world’s healthiest global marketplace for price discovery, transparency and integrity”.