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The Market-Making and revenue sharing program for Weekly Options on EURO STOXX® Banks Index has been prolonged until 31 December 2016, assuring the required liquidity for continued trading activity. Optiver and Susquehanna are actively quoting since the introduction of the product.
In fact, sector index derivatives are one of the fastest growing segments on Eurex Exchange. The high demand for sector products further increased in the first quarter of 2016. As an example, in Q1/2016 more than 280,000 contracts in EURO STOXX® Sector Index Futures were traded in average per day (March 2015: 144,000 contracts).
In the first quarter of this year, the EURO STOXX® Banks Options and Weeklies reached almost half of last year's trading volumes.
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On the STOXX® Europe 600 Sector Index Futures side, during Q1/2016, the most noticeable volume growth came from STOXX® Europe 600 Banks Futures with 751,460 contracts traded (+94% vs. Q1/2015) and the STOXX® Europe 600 Oil & Gas Futures (FSTE) with 572,973 contracts traded (+90% vs. Q1/2015).
For further information on the Market-Making program, please read the circulars below. Or contact our product experts for any question you might have.
Contact
Christine Heyde , T +49-69-211-1 56 98 or via e-mail: christine.heyde@eurexchange.com
Nicolas von Kageneck , T +33-1-55 27 67 76 or via e-mail: nicolas.kageneck@eurexchange.com