Trading Volumes On The Spanish Exchange Reached €60.66 Bn In March, Up 5.7% From February - The Derivatives Market Reports Quarterly Record High In Contracts Traded, At 24.3 Million

1. The trading volume to the end of March totalled €184.61 bn.
2. The number of shares traded in March was 9.72 bn, up 26.3% from February.
3. The Derivatives Market traded 10.5 million contracts in March, up 33% from the same month last year. Highlights include Options on Stocks, with 3.8 million contracts traded, up 170% from the same period a year earlier.
4. Trading volume on the Corporate Debt market to the end of March came close to €1 trillion.

In March the trading volume on the Spanish market through SIBE amounted to €60.66 bn, which represents a 5.7% increase from the previous month. The trading volume to the end of March totalled €184.61 bn.

During this month the number of transactions came in at 2.8 million, up 26.8% from the previous month and up 2.3% from the same month a year earlier. The number of trades to the end of March totalled 7.5 million.

The number of shares traded in March was 9.72 bn, up 26.3% from February and up 24.6% from the same month in 2008.

The number of trades on the ETF segment in March was up 118% from the same month a year earlier. In the first three months of the year the number of trades was up 53.3% from the same period in 2008. The trading volume on this segment in March came in at €171 million and in the first three months of the year it totalled €604 million.

In March trading on MEFF, BME’s Derivatives Market, came in at 10.5 million contracts, up 33% from the same a year earlier.

Highlights include Options on Stocks, with 3.8 million contracts traded, up 170% from the same period a year earlier.

The trading volume on this market for the first three months of the year was a record high, at 24.3 million contracts, up 40% from the same period in 2008. Highlights include Options on Stocks, up 113% from a year earlier, at 8.1 million contracts, and Futures on Stocks, up 53% from a year earlier, at 13 million contracts.

The number of warrants issued to the end of March totalled 2,448.Trading volumes in March on the warrants and certificates market came in at €172.9 million, up 13.3% from the previous month. The number of trades was 36,039, up 21.5% from the previous month.

Corporate Debt trading on the Debt Market to the end of March totalled €994.44 bn, triple that posted in the same period in 2008 (+199.5%). In March, the trading volume was €341.69 bn, up 189.4% from the same month a year earlier.

New issues in the first three months of the year totalled €127.01 bn, up 4.3% from the same period in 2008. New issues in March were €47 bn, up 26.6% from March 2008.

The outstanding balance of Corporate Debt at the end of March was €851.85 bn, up 10.3% from the same period a year earlier.