Internationals drop and equity ascends at Eurex 03 August 2012Frankfurt Reporter: Georgina Lavers
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In July 2012, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 8.1 million contracts, a drop from the 10.1 million seen year-on-year.
Of those, 5.8 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (July 2011: 7.2 million), and 2.3 million contracts (July 2011: 2.9 million) were traded at the US-based International Securities Exchange (ISE). In total, 127.6 million contracts
were traded at Eurex Exchange and 48.1 million at ISE.
At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment also dropped, from 72.5 million to 63.8 million contracts year-on-year. The single largest contract was the future on the EURO STOXX 50 Index with 25.8 million contracts.
In brighter news, the equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange grew by 23 percent year-on-year, reaching 29.5 million contracts Equity options totalled 17.9 million contracts and single stock futures were at 11.6 million contracts.
Eurex Repo, which operates Swiss Franc Repo, Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, reported in July 2012 for all Eurex Repo markets an average outstanding volume of 239.4 billion euros, a drop from the 292.9 billion euros seen in July 2011.
However, increases were found at the secured money market GC Pooling, recording an average outstanding volume of 156.3 billion euros, and an increase of 48 percent year-on-year, as well as the Euro Repo Market, which reached an average outstanding volume of 195.3 billion euros in July, an increase of 46 percent year-on-year.
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