In the year-to-date, almost 125.5 million transactions have been registered on Euronext cash markets, around 586,000 on a daily average basis: an increase of 9% year-to-date. In October, the number of 13.6 millions of cash trades registered reflects a slight increase year-on-year.
Shares
Trading in shares has grown by 10% year-to-date, in total as well as on daily average: 118.6 million transactions were done in these products over the first ten months of the year, 554,000 daily. The 12.9 million transactions done in October bring the daily average to 560,000 for the month.
Trackers
In trackers, almost 30,000 transactions were registered last month, bringing to over 370,500 the total number of transactions since the beginning of the year: an increase of 26% in the year-to-date in total, of 25% on a daily average basis.
Derivatives products
Euronext.liffe, the international derivatives business of Euronext, has traded 600 million futures and options contracts so far in 2003. Volumes are on a par with 2002. Average daily volume amounted to 2.79 million contracts year-to-date.
Euronext.liffe traded 65.7 million futures and options contracts in October 2003. Average daily volume for the month was 2.86 million contracts.
Over 39 million equity derivatives contracts were traded in October with an average daily volume of 1.6 million. Short-term interest rate products showed the strongest growth, up 45% year-to-date. Commodity products have grown by 14% year-to-date.
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