2007 - Record Year For OMX Nordic Exchange

“With five turnover records and three records for number of trades set in share trading during 2007, we have both managed to handle the peaks and the structural growth in trading. The inflow of new investment opportunities has continued from last year giving us 93 new companies and we are especially pleased with the interest outside the Nordics for listing on the Nordic Exchange. For 2008 we have already announced a number of initiatives, like fee cuts and post anonymity trading, in order to further enhance the new trading behaviours that are becoming more and more dominant on the European exchanges,” says Jukka Ruuska, President Nordic Marketplaces OMX.

• Average daily share turnover (including OTC trades) amounted to EUR 5,273 (4,197) million.
• The turnover rate was 130 (132) percent.
• The average daily derivative trading turnover amounted to 658,314 (601,514) contracts.
• The number of listed companies amounted to 855 (794).
• The number of new companies on the main market and First North amounted to 93 (103).
• The number of members amounted to 161 (159).

Highlights 2007

• The total share trading (including OTC trades) in 2007 amounted to EUR 1,318 billion, corresponding to an average daily turnover of EUR 5,273 million, thus making 2007 the best year ever in terms of trading (2006: EUR 4,197 million per day).
• The number of trades per day (including OTC trades) also reached an all time high, with 191,057 trades per day during 2007 (2006: 124,480 trades per day).
• The derivatives trading on OMX Nordic Exchange in 2007 amounted to 658,314 contracts per day, which is the best year ever (2006: 601,514 contracts per day).

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