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In June, 111.4 billion euros were traded on Xetra and on the floor at Börse Frankfurt – an increase of 27 percent year-on-year (June 2009: 87.9 billion euros). Of the 111.4 billion euros, 105.5 billion euros were traded on Xetra, an increase of 29 percent year-on-year (June 2009: 81.7 billion euros). 5.9 billion euros were traded on the floor, a slight decrease by 5 percent (June 2009: 6.2 billion euros).
Turnover in German equities on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets amounted to 95.1 billion euros, while foreign equities turnover stood at 13.3 billion euros.
Xetra and the floor at Börse Frankfurt accounted for 97 percent of the transaction volume in German equities on all stock exchanges in Germany. 91 percent of foreign equities traded on stock exchanges in Germany were traded on Xetra and on the floor in Frankfurt.
In June, 16 million transactions were executed on Xetra, an increase of 20 percent against the same period last year (June 2009: 13.3 million).
According to the Xetra liquidity measure (XLM), Deutsche Telekom AG was the most liquid DAX blue chip in June with 5.47 basis points (bp) for an order volume of 100,000 euros. EADS was the most liquid MDAX stock with 16.07 bp.
The most liquid ETF was DB X-TR.II-EONIA T.R. 1C with 0.31 bp. The most liquid foreign stock was Royal Dutch Shell with 9.35 bp. XLM measures liquidity in electronic securities trading on the basis of the implicit transaction costs.
It is expressed in basis points (1 bp = 0.01 percent); a low XLM denotes high liquidity in a security. Siemens AG was the DAX stock with the highest turnover on Xetra in June at 6.8 billion euros. HeidelbergCement AG was the top MDAX stock at 844.3 million euros, while KUKA AG led the SDAX stocks at 45.1 million euros and Aixtron AG headed the TecDAX at 824.3 million euros. At 1.5 billion euros, the iShares DAX was the exchange-traded fund with the highest turnover.
On all stock exchanges in Germany 122.5 billion euros were traded in June according to orderbook turnover statistics – an increase of 21 percent compared year-on-year (June 2009: 101.6 billion euros). This total includes 115.7 billion euros in equities, warrants and exchange-traded funds, as well as 6.9 billion euros in fixed-income securities.
