Slight dip in daily volume at Eurex

In September 2013, the international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 9.1 million contracts, a decrease of 1.1 million year-on-year.

Of those, 6.7 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (September 2012: 7.5 million), and 2.4 million contracts (September 2012: 2.7 million) were traded at the US-based International Securities Exchange (ISE).

In total, 140.4 million contracts were traded at Eurex Exchange and 48.1 million at ISE.

At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment totaled 61.8 million contracts (September 2012: 68.9 million). The future on the EURO STOXX 50 Index recorded 28.1 million contracts.

The options on this blue chip index totalled 20.3 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index recorded 2.4 million contracts while the DAX options reached another 3.6 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI Product recorded 1.7 million contracts.

Eurex Repo, which operates Swiss Franc Repo, Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, reported in September 2013 for all Eurex Repo markets an average outstanding volume of €227.3 billion, an increase of €200 million year-on-year.