Trading volume at the international derivatives exchange Eurex reached 162.4 million contracts, a rise of 52 percent year on year.
The daily average trading volume was 7.4 million compared with 5.1 million a year ago. Drivers of growth were the segments equity index and fixed income derivatives. The first seven months of this year saw a volume of 1.13 billion contracts, an increase of 22 percent over the same period last year.
Equity index derivatives saw the strongest growth, the segment reached 62.5 million contracts, an increase of 66 percent compared with 37.5 million contracts in July 2006. Thereof, 27.2 million contracts were traded of the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 index future and another 19.8 million contracts in the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 index option. DAXA options and futures recorded a combined volume of more than 13 million contracts.
Contract turnover in the fixed income segment in July was up 45 percent to 73 million.
Trading volume in equity derivatives accounted for 26.7 million contracts. The most heavily traded equity option was Allianz with 2.9 million contracts. The most heavily traded single stock future was on Banco Bilbao with 736,600 contracts.