Eurex saw a turnover of approximately 172 million contracts in November 2007, an increase of 32% compared with November 2006.
On average, 7.8 million contracts were traded daily in November, the average daily turnover in 2007 is 7.5 million contracts. In addition, open interest stands currently at 144 million contracts.
73.2 million contracts were traded in the equity index derivatives segment in November, the segment with the highest turnover. Year-on year Growth was 57% compared with 46.6 million contracts in November 2006.
The future on the DJ Euro STOXX 50 index saw 30 million contracts, followed by the option on this index with the second best monthly performance with 27.7 million contracts. The DAX option also reached its second-best monthly figure with 8.8 million contracts.
Equity derivatives were up 47%, 34.6 million contracts were traded in this segment compared with 23.5 million in November 2006. Single stock futures, strongly growing by 59%, generated turnover of 3.5 million contracts.
The fixed-income derivatives segment recorded 64 million contracts. The Euro-Bund Future saw 27.8 million contracts. On the Euro-Bobl Future, 14.3 million contracts were traded, up 11% year-on-year; and turnover on the Euro-Schatz Future rose by 17% year-on-year to 15.5 million contracts.
Eurex Repo, which operates CHF and EUR repo markets, set in its money market segment Euro GC Pooling a new daily record with outstanding volume of 26.6 billion on 6 November. Average outstanding volume reached in November 21 billion, a plus of 81% year-on-year.
All Eurex Repo markets recorded in difficult market conditions an average outstanding volume of 93.3 billion.
Approximately 10.2 billion was traded in November on the Eurex Bonds electronic trading platform, which rounds out Eurex’s range of fixed income product range, compared to 11.5 billion in October 2007.