Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) will add seven single stock futures (SSFs) on August 22nd to the existing list of 216, increasing the number of SSFs to 223.
For the first seven months of 2013, the trading volume and average daily volume of SSFs were 2,722,037 and 19,443 contracts, up 14% and 16% from the same period of the previous year, respectively. In addition, daily turnover reached an all-time high of 69,124 contracts on August 12th, and open interest rose to a new record of 321,015 contracts on August 9th.
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