A total volume of EUR312.8 billion was traded on all German stock exchanges in the last month of 2005, up 16% since 2004’s ending volume 2004. This total included EUR264.9 billion in equities, warrants and exchange traded funds, as well as EUR47.9 billion in fixed-income securities
The 2005 figure of EUR3.8 trillion in trading dwarfs the EUR3.3 trillion traded in 2004.
Order book statistics, which are based on single counting of all transactions in the order book of Xetra and broker-supported trading on the floor, show that the German stock exchanges generated an equities turnover of EUR101.6 billion in December.
Nearly 96% of transactions with German equities were executed on Xetra and on the floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB).
In foreign equities, 72% were traded on Xetra and the floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange; 6.1 million transactions were executed on Xetra in December – 17% more year-on-year than in 2004.