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SGX Derivatives' Trading Volume Up 11% In First Quarter Several Records Broken In March

Date 03/04/2001

Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading (SGX-DT) is pleased to announce robust growth for the first quarter of 2001. Total trading volume from January to March increased 11.1% to 7,768,982 contracts, over 6,994,621 contracts traded in the same period last year.

Strong growth was especially recorded in several major contracts in particular, the Euroyen Libor Futures, Singapore Dollar Interest Rate Futures and MSCI Taiwan Index Options.

The month of March also saw several records broken by various instruments.