Mixed May results for Eurex
05 June 2019 Frankfurt
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Eurex saw mixed results for May as despite a decrease in total trading volume there were increases in repo, equity and equity index derivatives trading.
Eurex repo saw an overall increase of 19 percent in average outstanding volume in the repo markets in comparison to May 2018.
The overall number of traded contracts was 173.2 million compared to 184 million in May 2018, a decrease of 6 percent.
Increases of 3 and 8 percent respectively for traded contracts in European equity index derivatives and European equity derivatives contrasted with traded contracts in European interest rates derivatives.
According to Eurex, these stood at 50.6 million, a decline of 25 percent year-on-year (67.4 million in May 2018).
Meanwhile, May saw a number of new monthly records as over 2.79 million VSTOXX futures and options plus more than 343,000 total return futures contracts were traded.
Additionally, more than 900,000 contracts were traded during Asian hours with a new daily record on 31 May of almost 229,000 traded contracts, indicating the success of Eurex’s trading hours extension.
Eurex repo saw an overall increase of 19 percent in average outstanding volume in the repo markets in comparison to May 2018.
The overall number of traded contracts was 173.2 million compared to 184 million in May 2018, a decrease of 6 percent.
Increases of 3 and 8 percent respectively for traded contracts in European equity index derivatives and European equity derivatives contrasted with traded contracts in European interest rates derivatives.
According to Eurex, these stood at 50.6 million, a decline of 25 percent year-on-year (67.4 million in May 2018).
Meanwhile, May saw a number of new monthly records as over 2.79 million VSTOXX futures and options plus more than 343,000 total return futures contracts were traded.
Additionally, more than 900,000 contracts were traded during Asian hours with a new daily record on 31 May of almost 229,000 traded contracts, indicating the success of Eurex’s trading hours extension.
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