Average Daily Volume Of 10.1 Million Contracts At Eurex Group In May - Segment Interest Rate Derivatives Volume With Significant Increase Year-On-Year

In May, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, recorded an average daily volume of 10.1 million contracts (May 2014: 8.1 million). Of those, 7.7 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (May 2014: 6.0 million), and 2.4 million contracts (May 2014: 2.1 million) were traded at the U.S.-based International Securities Exchange (ISE), part of Eurex Group. In total, 147.0 million contracts were traded at Eurex Exchange and 48.7 million at the ISE.

In its largest segment – equity index derivatives – Eurex Exchange achieved 51.2 million contracts (May 2014: 41.2 million). The future on the EURO STOXX 50^® Index totaled 20.2 million contracts; and options on this index recorded 20.3 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index totaled 2.0 million contracts while the DAX options reached 3.0 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI Product traded 1.7 million contracts.

The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange recorded 44.3 million contracts (May 2014: 48.4 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 15.1 million contracts and single stock futures equaled another 29.2 million contracts.

Eurex Exchange’s interest rate derivatives segment grew strongly and achieved 49.9 million contracts (May 2014: 35.4 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 17.3 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 10.9 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 5.3 million contracts. All three Euro-BTP-Futures totaled 2.7 million contracts; while the Euro-OAT-Futures recorded 2.0 million contracts – new monthly volume records.

The segment dividend-based derivatives achieved around 611,000 contracts. Volatility derivatives saw a total of 928,000 contracts.

The monthly volume on the Power Derivatives Market of European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 154.6 terawatt hours (TWh) in May 2015 (May 2014: 73.6 TWh). In May, a volume of 48.6 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the Spot and Derivatives Market for CO2 Emission Allowances compared with 34.9 million tonnes of CO2 in May 2014. In May, 2,822 contracts were traded in agricultural products.

Eurex Repo, which operates Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, recorded in all markets in May 2015 an average outstanding volume of 189.1 billion euros (May 2014: 195.3 billion euros). The secured money market GC Pooling recorded an average outstanding volume of 154.0 billion euros (May 2014: 151.8 billion euros). Due to the QE policy of the European Central Bank, the Euro Repo market reached an average outstanding volume of 35.1 billion euros (May 2014: 43.5 billion euros).

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