Statistics from OMX indicate that in July the Nordic exchange saw the highest equity trading activity on the exchange ever.
OMX says that the summer months usually see waning numbers in exchange trading activity, but this July shattered records in the number of shares transacted.
The number of trades jumped 18% to 93,000 trades per day as opposed to July of 2005 which had 79,000 transactions.
Daily turnover numbers also saw major growth, increasing EUR 30 million bringing the total to EUR 2,812 million.
The total value of average daily share trading during July amounted to EUR 2,812 million, EUR 3,734 million during the past 12 months, with the average number of trades per day hitting 93,260 contracts.
The average daily trading volume in Swedish, Finnish and Danish equity and fixed-income derivative products totaled 400,335 contracts over the past 12-month period 540,378.