In August 2015, the international derivatives markets of Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, recorded an average daily volume of 8.8 million contracts (August 2014: 7.0 million). Of those, 5.8 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (August 2014: 4.8 million), and 3.0 million contracts (August 2014: 2.2 million) were traded at the New York based International Securities Exchange (ISE). The volume traded on the spot and derivatives power markets of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 201.6 terawatt hours (TWh) in August 2015 (August 2014: 129.7 TWh). Eurex Repo recorded in all markets in August 2015 an average outstanding volume of 149.3 billion euros. Eurex Exchange At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment totaled 69.9 million contracts (August 2014: 51.2 million). The single largest contract was the future on the EURO STOXX 50 Index with 27.4 million contracts; and the options on this blue chip index totaled 28.6 million contracts. Futures on the DAX index recorded 2.5 million contracts while the DAX options reached another 3.8 million contracts. The Eurex KOSPI Product recorded 2.8 million contracts. The equity derivatives (equity options and single stock futures) segment at Eurex Exchange reached 20.1 million contracts (August 2014: 16.2 million). Thereof, equity options totaled 15.1 million contracts and single stock futures equaled 5.0 million contracts. The interest rate derivatives segment totaled 29.6 million contracts (August 2014: 31.4 million). The Euro-Bund-Future reached 11.4 million contracts, the Euro-Bobl-Future 7.5 million contracts and the Euro-Schatz-Future 4.0 million contracts.
European Energy Exchange The volume traded on the spot and derivatives power markets of EEX Group amounted to 201.6 terawatt hours (TWh) in August 2015 (August 2014: 129.7 TWh). On the natural gas spot and derivatives markets the volume amounted to 66.8 TWh (August 2014: 48.0 TWh). In August, a volume of 36.7 million tonnes of CO2 was traded on the spot and derivatives market for CO2 emission allowances (August 2014: 19.5 million tonnes of CO2).
Eurex Repo, which operates Euro Repo and GC Pooling markets, recorded in all markets in August 2015 an average outstanding volume of 149.3 billion euros (August 2014: 205.6 billion euros). This negative development was mainly due to the QE policy of the European Central Bank. The secured money market GC Pooling recorded an average outstanding volume of 123.0 billion euros (August 2014: 161.0 billion euros). The Euro Repo market reached an average outstanding volume of 26.3 billion euros compared with 44.6 billion euros in August 2014. |
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