“This record is just the next step in an expanding acceptance of our market model around the world,” said Richard Nesbitt, CEO of TSX Group, operator of Toronto Stock Exchange. “We are the global leader in mining listings, we list more energy companies than any other exchange around the world and we have been leaders and innovators in structured products and exchange-traded funds. Our market has seen the third highest amount of money raised by issuers of any of the world’s exchanges in 2005. Canada is obviously a market the world is watching.”
In addition to the trading value record, Toronto Stock Exchange has also seen 50 million trades on the market – the most ever for a year. Trading volume is at 59.2 billion shares – just below the record of 61.2 billion shares, set in 2004.
| Year | Volume | Value (Canadian $) | Price/Share | Trades |
| 1995 | 15,757,820,395 | 207,665,152,647 | 13.12 | 6,068,139 |
| 1996 | 22,341,148,377 | 301,298,938,253 | 13.49 | 9,185,906 |
| 1997 | 25,670,245,599 | 423,169,614,970 | 16.48 | 11,142,508 |
| 1998 | 26,765,265,298 | 493,211,774,246 | 18.43 | 12,462,654 |
| 1999 | 29,280,363,949 | 529,004,119,867 | 18.07 | 17,628,055 |
| 2000 | 40,752,008,134 | 944,253,991,039 | 23.17 | 32,775,273 |
| 2001 | 37,190,439,190 | 712,515,033,577 | 19.16 | 26,155,159 |
| 2002 | 46,351,174,516 | 637,708,576,873 | 13.76 | 26,540,655 |
| 2003 | 55,562,931,370 | 648,654,111,456 | 11.67 | 30,893,995 |
| 2004 | 61,277,965,140 | 833,906,598,578 | 13.61 | 40,267,012 |
*Trading value surpassed $1 trillion at approximately 10:00am today, December 6.
