In June 249.7 billion were turned over on Xetra, and on the floor of Boerse Frankfurt, a rise of 57 percent year-on-year. Thereof 234,4 billion were traded on Xetra gaining 58 percent year-on-year and 15.3 billion on the floor. German equities accounted for 234,7 billion, foreign equities comprising 11 billion. More than 97 percent of the transaction volume with German equities was executed at Boerse Frankfurt. More than 81 percent of foreign equities were traded on Xetra and on the floor.
In the entire month 14.9 million transactions were executed on Xetra, a rise of 55 percent year-on-year (June 2006: 9.5 million).
According to the Xetra liquidity measure (XLM), Siemens AG was the most liquid DAX blue chip in March with 4 basis points (bp) for an order volume of 100,000. Puma AG was the most liquid MDAX stock with 5 bp. The most liquid equity-based ETF was the db-x-trackers II EONIA Total Return with 3 bp. The most liquid foreign stock was ABN Amro with 8 bp. XLM measures liquidity in electronic securities trading on the basis of the implicit transaction costs. It is expressed in basis points (1 bp = 0.01 percent); a low XLM denotes high liquidity in a security.
Allianz SE was the strongest DAX stock on Xetra in June at 21.8 billion. Merck KGAA was the top MDAX stock at 1.5 billion while Air Berlin led the SDAX stock at 368.2 million and Solarworld AG headed the TecDAX at 651 million. At 4.6 billion, the DAX EX was once again the exchange-traded fund with the largest turnover.
On all stock exchanges in Germany 273.7 billion were traded in June, according to orderbook turnover statistics, a rise of 58 percent compared year-on-year. This total included 264.3 billion in equities, warrants and exchange-traded funds, as well as 9.4 billion in fixed-income securities.