April Highlights:
- Trading volumes on ECX reached a new monthly record of over 190 Mt, up 207% on April 2007. Futures represented 84% and options 16%.
- Average daily futures and options volume reached 8.7 Mt (8,665 lots). On 10th April, ECX enjoyed its record volume in a single day with 16.7 Mt (16,786 lots) traded.
- April was the first full month of the new CER futures contract, which saw an average daily volume of 802,000t and a total of 17.6 Mt.
- ECX is pleased to announce the launch of the new CER options contract on 16th May 2008.
- Futures open interest stands at 182 Mt, options open interest at 84 Mt (54 Mt in calls and 30 Mt in puts)
- ECX and ICE Futures welcome two new emissions members this month: Sucden (UK) Ltd and Geneva Ireland Financial Trading.
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