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http://www.marketcenter.com/press/index.cgi?release=11595:
Eurex Sets New World Record In Futures Trading Volume
Over 379 million contracts traded in 1999/ Bund
future is highest-volume product with 144 million
contracts traded
Frankfurt/Main, 30 Dec 1999
The derivatives exchange Eurex reports a new world
record in trading volume for the year 1999. According to
preliminary figures, which comprise an estimate for the
last exchange-trading day, 379 million contracts were
traded this year as compared with 248 million contracts
last year. This corresponds to an increase of about 53
percent in trading volume. Eurex closes out the year
1999 as the world's largest derivatives exchange by far,
beating out the Chicago Board of Trade (CBoT), the
number one derivatives exchange of previous years.
The highest-volume product was the BUND future with
144 million contracts traded (1998: 90 million contracts),
followed by the BOBL future with about 52 million
contracts traded (com-pared with 31.5 million in 1998)
and the DAX® option with 32.5 million contracts (against
30 million in 1998). Capital market products are the most
active segment at Eurex, with 246 million contracts
traded (compared with 141 million last year), ahead of
the index derivatives, at 65.5 million contracts traded
(45.5 million in 1998) and the stock options, with 65
million contracts traded in 1999 (1998: 61 million
contracts).
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