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The International Securities Exchange (ISE) today reported average daily volume of 4.4 million contracts in March 2009.
Average daily trading volume for all options contracts increased 3.7% to 4.4 million contracts in March as compared to 4.2 million contracts during the same period in 2008. Total options volume for the month increased 14.0% to 96.8 million contracts from 84.9 million contracts in the same year-ago period.
On a year-to-date basis, average daily trading volume of all options decreased 6.7% to 4.0 million contracts traded as compared to 4.3 million contracts traded in the prior year. Total year-to-date options volume through March 2009 decreased 6.7% to 242.5 million contracts from 259.8 million contracts in the same period last year.
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