In April, 126 billion euros were traded on Xetra and on the floor at Börse Frankfurt – an increase of 26 percent year-on-year (April 2009: 100 billion euros). Of the 126 billion euros, 118.8 billion euros were traded on Xetra, an increase of 27 percent year-on-year (April 2009: 93.4 billion euros). 7.2 billion euros were traded on the floor, an increase by 10 percent (April 2009: 6.5 billion euros).
Turnover in German equities on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets amounted to 109.1 billion euros, while foreign equities turnover stood at 13.5 billion euros. Xetra and the floor at Börse Frankfurt accounted for 95 percent of the transaction volume in German equities on all stock exchanges in Germany. 88 percent of foreign equities traded on stock exchanges in Germany were traded on Xetra and on the floor in Frankfurt.
In April, 15.3 million transactions were executed on Xetra, a slight increase of one percent against the same period last year (April 2009: 15.1 million).
According to the Xetra liquidity measure (XLM), RWE AG was the most liquid DAX blue chip in April with 4.8 basis points (bp) for an order volume of 100,000 euros. Heidelbergcement AG was the most liquid MDAX stock with 15.3 bp. The most liquid ETF was DB X-TR.II-EONIA T.R. 1C with 0.3 bp. The most liquid foreign stock was Air Liquide with 11.1 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.
Deutsche Bank AG was the DAX stock with the highest turnover on Xetra in April at 8.7 billion euros. Heidelbergcement AG was the top MDAX stock at 1.1 billion euros, while A. Springer AG led the SDAX stocks at 32.1 million euros and Aixtron AG headed the TecDAX at 1.1 billion euros. At 1.8 billion euros, the iShares DAX was the exchange-traded fund with the highest turnover.
On all stock exchanges in Germany 139.9 billion euros were traded in April according to orderbook turnover statistics – an increase of 20 percent compared year-on-year (April 2009: 115.7 billion euros). This total includes 131.3 billion euros in equities, warrants and exchange-traded funds, as well as 8.6 billion euros in fixed-income securities.
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