Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

The Options Clearing Corporation Announces Options Trading Volume Surpasses Last Year's Annual Record

Date 28/11/2005

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced on October 25 that the total number of options traded for the year reached 1,184,267,123 contracts yesterday, passing the annual volume record set last year of 1,182,040,096 contracts. This also represents a 26.3% increase over the same point last year.

This milestone comes with more than two months remaining for trading this year, and was achieved within the same month that now posts five of the top 10 record high volume days.