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NYSE Euronext (NYSE Euronext: NYX), the world’s largest and most liquid exchange group, today reported record transaction volumes in its European cash equities and derivatives trading operations for the week ended August 17, 2007.
NYSE Euronext’s European cash markets registered their busiest day ever on Aug. 17, with more than 2.4 million transactions, as compared to the previous Aug. 9 record of 2.3 million transactions.
In August 2007, NYSE Euronext’s European cash markets registered 5 new top 10 volume days, including today’s new record.
|
Rank |
Trade Date |
Euronext Cash Markets Total Trades |
|
1 |
08/17/2007 |
2 467 132 |
|
2 |
08/09/2007 |
2 326 224 |
|
3 |
08/10/2007 |
2 269 538 |
|
4 |
02/28/2007 |
2 102 556 |
|
5 |
03/01/2007 |
2 054 926 |
|
6 |
08/16/2007 |
2 015 280 |
|
7 |
07/27/2007 |
1 925 096 |
|
8 |
07/26/2007 |
1 854 794 |
|
9 |
02/27/2007 |
1 804 026 |
|
10 |
08/08/2007 |
1 795 564 |
Additionally, order volumes for the day and for the week also reached a record, with respectively 25.7 and 95.8 million orders.
Liffe, NYSE Euronext’s leading futures and options business, recorded its busiest week ever with more than 30 million futures and options contracts traded by 5.30pm (CET) on Aug. 17. The previous weekly record was 28,464,402 in the week ending June 8, 2007. More than 588 million contracts have been traded in the year-to-date, up 24% on the same period of 2006.
Short term interest rate products have traded their busiest week ever with over 18 million contracts traded by 5.30pm (CET) on Aug. 17. The previous record was 13 million for the week ending August 10, 2007.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext, a holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., commenced trading on April 4, 2007. NYSE Euronext (NYSE Euronext: NYX) operates the world’s largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges in six countries, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data. Representing a combined $30.8 trillion/€22.8 trillion total market capitalization of listed companies and average daily trading value of approximately $127.0 billion/€94.0 billion (as of June 29, 2007), NYSE Euronext seeks to provide the highest standards of market quality and integrity, innovative products and services to investors, issuers, and all users of its markets.
