Volume Increases 87% At The Montréal Exchange

Canada's derivatives market – the Montréal Exchange - established another record with a daily average volume of 195,112 contracts for the month of May 2006, compared to 104,220 in May 2005, an increase of 87,2%.

Five new records of activity were established in May - eleven since the beginning of 2006. More details are available in the Economic analysis of Montréal Exchange's derivatives, available at www.m-x.ca.