In April trading in equities on the Spanish market through SIBE amounted to € 74.88 bn, which represents a monthly increase of 20.3% and a 36.6% up relative to April 2004. In this month more than 1.4 million trades were executed, 26.3% up on April 2004.
These figures bring the daily value of trading in April to € 3.56 bn, up 20.3% on the previous month.
Trading on the Latibex market in April exceeded € 43.8 million, which represents a 2.5% increase from the previous monthly high, bringing the trading daily average to over € 2.2 million, the highest value posted by this market.
The return on the IBEX 35 index in March was down 2.78% in April bringing the accumulated return on the index from January to – 0.87%. The return on the IBEX 35 with dividends in the same period was 0.10%.
Trading volume in MEFF options and futures in April was 1.85 million contracts, 47% up on the same month last year.
It is worth noting the trading volume on Futuros Ibex 35, which reached 451,687 contracts, 25% up on April 2004. Also important was the performance shown by Futures on single stocks, which posted 424,383 contracts, 103% yoy and Options on the IBEX 35, which reached 361,914 contracts and an annual increase of 100%.
The trading volume on MEFF in the first four months of this year was 11.2 million contracts, up 31% on the same period last year.