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In February 2016, the international derivatives markets of Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, recorded an average daily volume of 9.8 million contracts (February 2015: 7.8 million). Of those, 7.2 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (February 2015: 5.8 million), and 2.6 million contracts (February 2015: 1.8 million) were traded at the New York based International Securities Exchange (ISE). The volume traded on the spot and derivatives power markets of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 300.3 terawatt hours. Eurex Repo recorded in all markets in February 2016 an average outstanding volume of 139.8 billion euros.
Eurex Exchange
At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment totaled 80.7 million contracts (February 2015: 57.1 million). The single largest contract was the future on the EURO STOXX 50® Index with 34.7 million contracts; and the options on this blue chip index totaled 27.3 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index recorded 2.5 million contracts while the DAX options reached another 2.6 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI Product recorded 2.1 million contracts.
The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange reached almost 25.6 million contracts (February 2015: 24.2 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 18.8 million contracts and single stock futures equaled 6.8 million contracts.
The interest rate derivatives segment totaled 42.5 million contracts (February 2015: 33.9 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 15.6 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 10.3 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 6.0 million contracts. The three Euro-BTP-Futures totaled around 2.4 million contracts. The two Euro-OAT-Futures recorded around 2.3 million contracts.
The Eurex Exchange segment dividend-based derivatives recorded around 1.5 million contracts. Volatility derivatives totaled 0.9 million contracts.
European Energy Exchange
The monthly volume on EEX’s power derivatives market amounted to 300.3 terawatt hours (TWh) in February 2016 (February 2015: 228.8 TWh). The total volume on the power spot and derivatives markets of EEX Group amounted to 348.1 TWh. This volume also includes the EPEX SPOT markets (incl. APX-Belpex) which have been fully consolidated into EEX as of the beginning of 2015 as well as SEEPEX volume.
On the natural gas spot and derivatives markets, the volume amounted to 233.2 TWh (February 2015: 79.9 TWh). In February, a volume of 86.4 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the spot and derivatives market for CO2 emission allowances (February 2015: 52.2 million tonnes of CO2). In addition, 2,911 contracts were traded in EEX’s agricultural products. In freight, 22,271 contracts were traded in February (February 2015: 20,718 contracts) and 24.6 million tonnes were traded in iron ore (February 2015: 6.5 million tonnes).
Eurex Repo
Eurex Repo, which operates GC Pooling and Euro Repo markets, recorded in all markets in February 2016 an average outstanding volume of 139.8 billion euros (February 2015: 213.1 billion euros). This negative development was mainly due to the QE policy of the European Central Bank. The secured money market GC Pooling recorded an average outstanding volume of 109.7 billion euros (February 2015: 177.1 billion euros). The Euro Repo market reached an average outstanding volume of 30.1 billion euros compared with 36.0 billion euros in February 2015.
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