Eurex, the international derivatives exchange, experienced a 22%increase in turnover volume compared year-on-year to 185 million contracts.
The daily average turnover stood at 8.4 million contracts. Open interest saw a rise of 13% to 141 million contracts per the end of March 2008.The equity derivatives was the segment with the highest turnover and with67.6 million contracts set a new monthly record. The former record was achieved in April 2007 with 53 million contracts a rise of 28%.
Single Stock Futures (SSFs) poked out of equity derivatives with a 192% rise to 32 million contracts compared to April 2007. In Mnchener Rck SSFs alone 12.4 million contracts were traded.
Equity index derivatives rose by 33% year-on-year und totaled in 65million contracts. Futures and options on the Dow Jones Euro STOXX 50 hadthe highest volume turning over 24.4 million future contracts and 26.9 million option contracts.
Around 52 million contracts were traded in the fixed income derivativessegment. Approximately 21.4 million contracts were traded inthe Euro-Bund-Future. Trading volume in the Euro-Schatz Future reached 13.3 million contracts a rise of 34%.
Eurex Repo, which operates CHF- and EUR repo markets, set several newrecords in April: all Eurex repo markets had an average outstanding volume of 126.4 billion.