Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

Record Business For Euronext In 2000

Date 18/01/2001

Euronext, the pan-European stock exchange resulting from the merger of Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris exchanges, saw business reach new records on all markets in 2000, with trading up 15 to 110%, depending on the products.

Equity trading up 60% - Market capitalisation places Euronext second in Europe.

Trades through Euronext orderbooks totalled EUR 1,706.67 billion in 2000, 58.99% more than the EUR 1,073.44 billion recorded in the previous year. Trades totalled 128.09 million, showing a rise of 58.31% from 80.91 million in 1999. Companies listed on Euronext raised EUR 89.306 billion during the year, 23.22% more than the EUR 72.416 billion raised in 1999. During the year, 111 companies including 18 from outside Euronext home countries were admitted to regulated markets. At the end of December 2000, the 1,653 companies (including 437 from outside Euronext home countries) represented total market capitalisation of EUR 2,420 billion, the second highest figure for any European market.

Derivatives: number one worldwide for index derivatives and number two for equity options.

Altogether, counting all types of products, nearly 327 million (326,657,802) futures and options changed hands on Euronext derivatives markets in 2000, 33.24% more than in the previous year.

Equity and index derivatives accounted for 86.53% of the total, with 282,646,713 contracts representing a rise of 20.22% from the previous year. This makes Euronext the world's leading market for index futures and options and number two worldwide for equity options, in terms of the number of contracts traded.

The Euro Notional bond future represented over 13% of trading, with 43,546,375 contracts exchanged during the year.