Deutsche Börse: Turnover On Xetra Increases By 12 Percent In October - Transactions On Xetra Up By 34 Percent

Order book turnover on Xetra and the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading stood at €109.5 billion in October – an increase by 9.6 percent year-on-year (October 2010: €99.9 billion). Of the €109.5 billion, €104.6 billion were attributable to Xetra (+12 percent y-o-y, October 2010: €93.5 billion). €4.9 billion were attributable to the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading, a 23 percent decrease y-o-y (October 2010: €6.4 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange* totalled €2.8 billion in October.
 
In equities, turnover reached €90.3 billion on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets (Xetra: €88.3 billion, Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading: €2.0 billion). Turnover in bonds was €1.5 billion, and in structured products on Scoach €2.1 billion. Order book turnover in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) amounted to €15.6 billion.
 
A total of 21.4 million transactions were executed on Xetra in October, an increase of 34 percent y-o-y (October 2010: 15.9 million).
 
The DAX security with the highest turnover in October was Deutsche Bank AG at €6.6 billion. Continental AG led the MDAX equities at €772.5 million, while Derby Cycle AG topped the SDAX equity index with €62.6 million, and Aixtron SE headed TecDAX with €305.7 million. The ETF with the highest turnover on Xetra was iShares DAX with €2.8 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.