In October 2013, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 7.9 million contracts (October 2012: 7.6 million). Of those, 5.1 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (October 2012: 5.3 million), and 2.8 million contracts (October 2012: 2.4 million) were traded at the U.S.-based International Securities Exchange (ISE). In total, 117.1 million contracts were traded at Eurex Exchange and 64.2 million at ISE. At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment totaled 52.9 million contracts (October 2012: 54.0 million). The future on the EURO STOXX 50 Index recorded 19.5 million contracts. The options on this blue chip index totaled 21.3 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index recorded 2.0 million contracts while the DAX options reached another 3.3 million contracts. The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange reached 25.9 million contracts (October 2012: 28.1 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 18.1 million contracts and single stock futures equaled 7.8 million contracts. Eurex Exchange’s interest rate derivatives segment totaled 36.7 million contracts (October 2012: 38.1 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 13.9 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 9.3 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 6.3 million contracts. The three Euro-BTP-Futures totaled around 1.0 million contracts, the two Euro-OAT-Futures recorded around 865,000 contracts. The volume traded on the Power Derivatives Market of European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 145.6 terawatt hours (TWh) in October 2013 (October 2012: 66.6 TWh). Furthermore, a volume of 60,000 Guarantees of Origin has been traded on the EEX Derivatives Market. On the EEX Spot and Derivatives Market for natural gas the volume traded amounted to 10.2 TWh (October 2012: 8.7 TWh). In October, a volume of 86.6 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the Spot and Derivatives Market for CO2 Emission Allowances compared with 19.2 million tonnes of CO2 in October 2012. |
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