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In May, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group achieved an average daily volume of 10.1 million contracts (May 2012: 11.2 million). Of those, almost 7.4 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (May 2012: 8.4 million), and 2.7 million contracts (May 2012: 2.6 million) were traded at the U.S.-based International Securities Exchange (ISE). In total, 162.4 million contracts were traded at Eurex Exchange and 58.3 million at ISE. This makes May the best month in terms of trading volumes in 2013.
Eurex Exchange recorded 51.9 million equity index derivatives contracts (May 2012: 76.6 million). The single largest contract was the future on the EURO STOXX 50® Index with 20.6 million contracts. The option on this blue chip index totaled 18.6 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index recorded 2.3 million contracts while the DAX options reached another 4.0 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI Product reached 1.5 million contracts.
The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange recorded 60.5 million contracts (May 2012: 66.4 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 19.2 million contracts and single stock futures equaled 41.3 million contracts.
Eurex Exchange’s interest rate derivatives segment grew by 16 percent and recorded 48.7 million contracts (May 2012: 41.8 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 18.4 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 12.8 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 7.9 million contracts. The Euro-BTP-Future grew by 69 percent y-o-y and totaled around 778,000 contracts. The Euro-OAT-Future for the second time totaled more than 1.0 million contracts.
The dividend-based derivatives segment totaled more than 452,000 contracts. Volatility derivatives grew by 35 percent y-o-y and totaled 574,000 contracts.
The volume traded on the Power Derivatives Market of European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 66.9 terawatt hours (TWh) in May 2013 (May 2012: 68.6 TWh). On the EEX Spot and Derivatives Market for natural gas the volume traded amounted to 6.7 TWh (May 2012: 4.4 TWh). In May, a volume of 58.6 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the Spot and Derivatives Market for CO2 Emission Allowances compared with 16.8 million tonnes of CO2 in May 2012.
Eurex Repo, which operates Swiss Franc Repo, Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, reported in May for all Eurex Repo markets an average outstanding volume of 228.5 billion euros (May 2012: 248.4 billion euros). The secured money market GC Pooling recorded an average outstanding volume of 156.6 billion euros, an increase of 7 percent y-o-y. On 30 May, a new record was achieved with a daily average outstanding volume of 168.6 billion euros. The Euro Repo Market reached an average outstanding volume of 37.0 billion euros (May 2012: 44.2 billion euros). The Swiss Franc Repo market reached 34.9 billion euros.
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