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- The trading volume in ETFs in March was 122% higher than in the same month of 2009.
- BME’s Derivatives market posted a trading volume of 6.7 million contracts in March, the highest monthly figure in the quarter.
- Corporate Debt trading in March came in at €211.20bn, up 74% from the previous month.
Equities
In the first quarter the equity trading volume on the Spanish stock exchange amounted to €229.11bn, which represents a 24.1% increase from the same month of 2009. March marked the fifth consecutive month of growth in the equity trading volume, at €65.43bn, up 8% from the same period a year earlier.
The number of share trades in the quarter totalled 9.44 million, up 26.5% from the same period in 2009. The number of trades in March was 3.1 million, up 11.3% from the same month in 2009.
The trading volume on the ETF segment in March was up 122% from the same month in 2009, at €381 million. The trading volume in the quarter was €1.67bn, up 177% from the same period in 2009.
The number of trades in the ETF segment in March came in at 5,604, up 45% on the same month in 2009. In the first quarter the number of trades totalled 18,480, up by almost 80% on the figure posted in the same period a year earlier.
Futures and Options
In March trading on BME’s Derivatives Market came in at 6.7 million contracts, the highest monthly figure for the quarter. Most of the trading took place in futures and options on stocks, which totalled 5.7 million contracts.
The trading volume in the quarter totalled 17.2 million contracts, down 30% from the same period a year earlier.
Warrants and Certificates
The number of warrants issued in the first three months of the year came in at 1,975. Trading volumes in March on the warrants and certificates market came in at €118 million, down 4.8% from February. The number of trades in March was 28,503, down 8.8% from the previous month.
The trading volume on this segment to March totalled €342 million, down 31.5% from the same period in 2009 and the number of trades was 84,011, down 15.5% from the same period the previous year.
Fixed Income
Corporate Debt trading in March reached €211.20bn, up 74% on the previous month. Trading concentrated mainly on bonds and simple obligations. Volumes traded decreased by 38.2% from the same month in 2009. The trading volume in the first quarter reached €572.54 bn.
New issues in March came in at €18.64bn, down 60.3% from the same period in 2009. In the first quarter new issues totalled €159.54bn, down 28% from the same period a year earlier.
The outstanding balance of Corporate Debt at the end of March was €866.27bn, up 1.6% from the same period a year earlier. It is worth mentioning that the outstanding balance of debentures increased slightly compared to February, in this way breaking the downward trend it had followed over the last few months.
BME’s electronic Public Debt platform posted a trading volume of €20.61bn in March, up 49.8% from the same month in 2009 while in the first quarter the trading volume totalled €53.79bn, up 51% from the same period a year earlier.
