Order book turnover on Xetra and on the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange stood at 121.7 billion in January a rise of 14 percent year-on-year (January 2010: 106.3 billion). Of the 121.7 billion, 114.3 billion was attributable to Xetra which registered growth of 15 percent y-o-y (January 2010: 99.0 billion). 7.5 billion was attributable to floor trading in Frankfurt, a slight increase y-o-y (January 2010: 7.4 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange totalled 2.5 billion in January, making it 89 percent higher y-o-y (January 2010: 1.3 billion).
In equities, turnover reached 102.5 billion on Deutsche Brses cash markets (Xetra: 99.1 billion, Frankfurt trading floor: 3.4 billion). Turnover in bonds was 2.0 billion, and in structured products 2.6 billion (including Scoach). Order book turnover in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) amounted to 14.6 billion.
A total of 18.9 million transactions were executed on Xetra in January, growth of 30 percent y-o-y (January 2010: 14.5 million). The Siemens AG share was the most liquid equity on the DAX index in January, based on the Xetra liquidity measure (XLM) with 4.84 basis points (bp) for an order volume of 100,000. Salzgitter AG topped the MDAX with 18.09 bp. The most liquid foreign equity was Air Liquide S.A. with 10.65 bp. XLM measures liquidity in electronic securities trading on the basis of the implicit transaction costs. It is expressed in basis points (1 bp = 0.01 percent); a low XLM denotes high liquidity in a security.
The DAX security with the highest turnover in January was Siemens AG at 9.4 billion. Continental AG led the MDAX equities at 666.2 million, while Balda AG topped the SDAX equity index with 84.1 million, and Aixtron SE headed TecDAX with 1.1 billion. The ETF with the highest turnover on Xetra was iShares DAX with 1.6 billion.
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