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Deutsche Börse: Turnover On Xetra Has More Than Doubled In August - 32.2 Million Transactions On Xetra

Date 01/09/2011

Order book turnover on Xetra and the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading stood at €181.6 billion in August – an increase by 102 percent year-on-year (August 2010: €89.7 billion). Of the €181.6 billion, €173.4 billion were attributable to Xetra (+107 percent y-o-y, August 2010: €83.8 billion). €8.2 billion were attributable to the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading, an increase of 38 percent y-o-y (August 2010: €5.9 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange* totalled €4.6 billion in August, nearly four times as much y-o-y (+279 percent, August 2010: €1.2 billion).
 
In equities, turnover reached €148.1 billion on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets (Xetra: €144.1 billion, Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading: €4.0 billion). Turnover in bonds was €1.6 billion, and in structured products on Scoach €4.4 billion. Order book turnover in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) amounted to €27.5 billion.
 
A total of 32.2 million transactions were executed on Xetra in August, an increase of 125 percent y-o-y (August 2010: 14.4 million).
 
The DAX security with the highest turnover in August was Siemens AG at €11.2 billion. Continental AG led the MDAX equities at €1.2 billion, while Deutz AG topped the SDAX equity index with €125.5 million, and Aixtron SE headed TecDAX with €677.9 million. The ETF with the highest turnover on Xetra was iShares DAX with €4.7 billion.
 
Further details are available online in Deutsche Börse’s cash market statistics at www.deutsche-boerse.com. For a pan-European comparison of trading locations, see the statistics provided by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) at www.fese.be.


*When executing customer orders against one another the Tradegate order book turnover is counted twice; therefore comparability with Xetra and Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading with their consistent one-way count is limited.