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An average daily volume of 8.9 million contracts (January 2014: 8.5 million) was recorded at the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group in January 2015. Of those, 6.7 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (January 2014: 5.5 million), and 2.2 million contracts (January 2014: 3.0 million) were traded at the U.S.-based International Securities Exchange (ISE).
In total in January, 139.6 million contracts were traded at Eurex Exchange and 43.5 million at ISE.
At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment totaled 76.6 million contracts compared with 58.4 million in January 2014 (+31 percent). The future on the EURO STOXX 50® Index recorded 29.2 million contracts, the options on this blue chip index another 29.9 million contracts. DAX index futures recorded 2.9 million contracts while the DAX options reached another 5.3 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI Product grew by 44 percent year-on-year and recorded 2.7 million contracts.
The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange reached 21.9 million contracts (January 2014: 23.5 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 16.9 million contracts and single stock futures equaled 5.0 million contracts.
Eurex Exchange’s interest rate derivatives segment totaled 39.0 million contracts (January 2014: 38.0 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 14.4 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 8.0 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 5.2 million contracts. The two Euro-OAT-Futures recorded 1.6 million contracts; the three Euro-BTP-Futures totaled 2.4 million contracts.
The Eurex Exchange segment dividend-based derivatives reached approx. 965,000 contracts. Volatility derivatives near doubled y-o-y and totaled 1.2 million contracts.
Eurex Repo, which operates Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, reported in January 2015 for all Eurex Repo markets an increase of 11 percent, the average outstanding volume totaled 198.0 billion euros (January 2014: 177.8 billion euros). The secured money market GC Pooling grew by 14 percent and recorded an average outstanding volume of 159.3 billion euros (January 2014: 140.2 billion euros). The Euro Repo Market grew slightly and reached an average outstanding volume of 38.7 billion euros (January 2014: 37.6 billion euros).
The monthly volume on the Power Derivatives Market of European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 226.5 terawatt hours (TWh) in January 2015 (January 2014: 116.2 TWh). In January, a volume of 49.4 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the Spot and Derivatives Market for CO2 Emission Allowances compared with 74.7 million tonnes of CO2 in January 2014.
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