Trading volume on Eurex reached 197.7 million contracts in June, compared with 196.3 million in June 2007 and 194.6 in May 2008, making June 2008 one of the three strongest months ever for the interational derivates exchange.
Average daily trading volume at Eurex was 9.4 million contracts in June; for the first six months of 2008 the figure was 9.1 million. Through the end of June, total trading volumes on Eurex reached 1,146 millioncontracts, up 18% year-on-year (Jan-June 2007: 970.6 million).
The strongest segment, equity index derivatives, counted 86.1 million contracts, up 14% year-on-year (June 2007: 75.6 million). The most heavily traded product on Eurex, the future on the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50, grew slightly to 38 million contracts (June 2007: 35.7 million). Options on theDow Jones Euro STOXX 50 reached its third-best month and totaled 31 million contracts (June 2007: 19.4 million). Equity derivatives volumes climbed by more than 50% to 46.4 million contracts (June 2007: 30.6 million), with 30.6 million contracts in equity options and 15.8 million contracts in single stock futures.
The interest rate derivatives segment reached 65.1 million contractscompared with 90.1 million in June 2007. The Euro-Bund Future totalled 25.1 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl Future 14.7 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz Future roughly 19.4 million contracts.
At the International Securities Exchange (ISE), which has been a subsidiaryof Eurex since the end of December 2007, US options reached an average daily trading volume of 3.9 million contracts (June 2007: 3 million, up 30%). In total, trading volume increased by 30% to 81.4 million options contracts (June 2007: 62.6 million).
Eurex Repo, which operates CHF- and euro repo markets, set new records inall segments in June 2008: all Eurex repo markets had a new peak, averageoutstanding volume was 134.3 bn. (June 2007: 93.9 bn.). The secured money
market segment, Euro GC Pooling, set strongest growth and rose by 260% to an average outstanding volume of 39.9 bn. (June 2007: 11.1 bn.).
The electronic trading platform Eurex Bonds, which rounds out Eurex’s fixed-income product range, traded volume of 8.7 bn. (single counting) inJune compared to the May 2008 figure of 7.1 bn. (+ 23%); in June 2007 volume was 17 bn.