With 64.5 million contracts traded in November, the fixed-income derivatives segment put in the highest turnover on Eurex. The Euro-Bund Future remained the strongest Eurex product in terms of turnover, the number of contracts growing year-on-year by 14 percent to 27.2 million. On the Euro-Bobl Future, 15.9 million contracts were traded up 17 percent on November 2004, and turnover on the Euro-Schatz Future rose by 42 percent to 14.9 million contracts. The Euro-Buxl Future, which was launched on 9 September, generated turnover of 114,000 contracts in November.
49.6 million contracts were traded in equity-based derivatives in November, of which 25.5 million were in the equity index derivatives segment (up around 12 percent), and 24.1 million in the equity options segment, a rise of 36 percent. The top equity index derivative was the future on the DJ Euro STOXX 50-Index with 9.8 million contracts, a 13 percent increase.
14.9 billion euros (single counting) was traded in November on the electronic trading platform Eurex Bonds, which rounds out Eurex’s range of Fixed Income products, a rise of 33 percent year-on-year (November 2004: 11.2 billion euros).