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SGX Derivatives Continue Strong Growth In October

Date 03/11/2003

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced that strong growth in trading volume was registered by most of its major derivatives contracts in October 2003.

Contracts
Oct 03 Tdg Vol
(No. of Contracts)
Oct 02 Tdg Vol
(No. of Contracts)
% Growth
Nikkei 225 Options
28,274
8,876
218.5
MSCI Taiwan Options
7,602
2,955
157.3
Euroyen Futures
256,669
116,111
121.1
Nikkei 225 Futures
623,620
378,363
64.8
Mini Jap Govt Bond Futures
37,212
29,563
25.9
MSCI S'pore Stock Index Futures
101,991
84,134
21.2
MSCI Taiwan Futures
492,378
460,196
7.0

MSCI Singapore Stock Index futures and MSCI Taiwan Index futures and options contracts broke several records in October. In particular, MSCI Taiwan Options broke its open interest record 11 times from 14 to 29 October 2003.

ContractItem
New Record
(No. of contracts)
Date
Previous Record
(No. of contracts)
Date
MSCI S'pore Stock Index FuturesMthly Vol
101,991
Oct 03
97,981
Sep 03
MSCI S'pore Stock Index FuturesAve Vol
4,636
Oct 03
4,481
Mar 03
MSCI Taiwan index FuturesDaily Vol
80,701
29 Oct 03
79,819
25 Feb 03
MSCI Taiwan Index OptionsOpen int
10,473
29 Oct 03
10,223
28 Oct 03
MSCI Taiwan Index OptionsMthly Vol
7,602
Oct 03
7,450
Sep 03